Storyline
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye.
Directors
Cast
Ed Harris, Rip Torn, Michael Douglas, Tom Selleck, Lance LeGault, Richard Doyle, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Widmark, Nicholas Worth, Lois Chiles, Benny Rubin, Elizabeth Ashley, Hari Rhodes, Gary Barton, Frank Downing, Alan Haufrect, Michael MacRae, Betty McGuire, Joanna Kerns, Charles Siebert, Martin Speer
Trailer
Reviews
100
Crichton's excellent adaptation of Robin Cook's novel is one of the most intelligent sci-fi thrillers in years. A simple enough story, but one told in such chilling fashion that visitors to hospitals will never feel the same again.
90
A suspense-filled nailbiter that plays on a fear no weapon weilding psycho can top.
90
Variety
Coma is an extremely entertaining suspense drama in the Hitchcock tradition. Robin Cook's novel is adapted by Crichton into a smartly paced tale which combines traditional Hitchcock elements with contemporary personal relationships.
60
The New Yorker
The scenes inside the Institute have a chill, spectral beauty, yet the spookiness doesn't explode. The movie seems a little too cultivated, too cautious.
50
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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