Coma PG
Imagine your life hangs by a thread. Imagine your body hangs by a wire. Imagine you're not imagining.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 9, 2010
- Originally Released: 1978
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Geneviève Bujold | |
Performer: | Michael Douglas, Richard Widmark, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, Tom Selleck, Lois Chiles, Hari Rhodes, Gary Barton, Frank Downing & Richard Doyle | |
Directed by | Michael Crichton | |
Edited by | David Bretherton | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Crichton | |
Composition by | Jerry Goldsmith | |
Produced by | Martin Erlichman | |
Director of Photography: | Victor J. Kemper & Gerald Hirschfeld |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Coma wastes a superb performance by Bujold on a simplistic, predictable series of cliched suspense scenes, seasoned with some last-minute moralizing about contemporary medicine.
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TV Guide
Coma is an extremely entertaining suspense drama in the Hitchcock tradition.
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Variety
Rating: B+ --
More entertaining than credible.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
...An extremely entertaining suspense drama....[The] entire cast, down through minor supporting roles, contributes to the impact...
Variety
Michael Crichton's slow-paced thriller must have begun with something to say about the morality of the medical profession, but whatever it was is lost in the shuffle of unnecessary narrative detail.
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Chicago Reader
...[COMA] combines dry humour and documentary realism....A pleasingly old-fashioned movie...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 2/5 --
The aftereffect of Coma is a catlike yawn, benign and bored.
New York Times
Product Description:
Based on the best-selling novel by Robin Cook, COMA is a taught paranoid thriller and a dramatically apt metaphor for the corruption and fraud in the modern American health-care industry. Dr. Susan Wheeler (Genevieve Bujold) suspects her colleagues of foul play when her closest friend lapses into a coma following a routine operation. When Wheeler discovers a suspiciously frequent pattern of unexplained comas in her hospital, she becomes obsessed with finding an answer, even when it puts her own career and life in danger. Her lover, Dr. Bellows (Michael Douglas), admits there is a mystery but doubts there is a conspiracy and even suspects Wheeler of suffering from a nervous breakdown. The tension builds as Wheeler's investigation leads her to a secret corporation specializing in organ transplant experimentation and sale for profit, and she soon witnesses the defining image of the film: comatose bodies suspended on wires in a computer-controlled environment. With its suspensful plot, dramatic editing, and conspiratorial terror, COMA is a precursor to many paranoid dramas such as THE FIRM and THE PELICAN BRIEF, establishing a defined style that may yet become a genre unto itself.