Coma (Blu-ray) PG
Imagine your life hangs by a thread. Imagine your body hangs by a wire. Imagine you're not imagining.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 53 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: July 10, 2012
- 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:
A suspense-filled nailbiter that plays on a fear no weapon weidling psycho can top.
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Empire Magazine
Rating: 3/4 --
The boys'-club politics at the hospital provide the picture with interesting subtext right in line with the sexual dynamics of the period; Bujold proves to be a worthy champion for the feminist cause.
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Creative Loafing
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
Rating: 2/5 --
The aftereffect of Coma is a catlike yawn, benign and bored.
New York Times
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
Rating: 7/10 --
...a genuinely suspenseful mystery thriller, with a conspiracy angle unfolding in due course without a lot of fuss and bother.
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Movie Metropolis
A medical thriller of obvious authenticity... Crichton exploits the suspense with enough skill to make you overlook the far-fetched nature of the premise.
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Associated Press
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.
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- Sales Rank: 55,575
- UPC: 883929228003
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