Coma

1978

Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

29
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 66% · 26 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 66% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 22698 22.7K

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Plot summary

When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.

Director

Michael Crichton Photo
Michael Crichton

Top cast

Tom Selleck Photo
Tom Selleck as Sean Murphy
Maury Cooper Photo
Maury Cooper as Third Doctor
Joanna Kerns Photo
Joanna Kerns as Diane
Richard Doyle Photo
Richard Doyle as Jim
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977.08 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 53 min
Seeds 7
1.74 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 53 min
Seeds 30

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by moonspinner55 7 / 10

Genevieve Bujold is one tough cookie!

As a squirrelly doctor at a Boston hospital who smells a rat when her best friend mysteriously goes into an anesthesia-related coma during a routine operation, Genevieve Bujold proves once again what a dynamic presence she is on the screen. Cool-headed one moment, hysterical and running-in-all-directions the next, she's instantly identifiable to us. As a mystery-thriller that is so filled with continuity errors, gaps in logic and a final act that gives the audience the satisfying release it needs but at the risk of all credibility, "Coma" shouldn't work (and, indeed, many fans of Robin Cook's wordy book didn't think it did). However, as a one-box-of-popcorn melodrama, the film is very enjoyable and suspenseful. Not the least of the reasons why it's so good is Bujold; handling herself like one of the best crime detectives ever concocted, she is gutsy, feisty, nosy and infectious. You never tire of her spirit. *** from ****
Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 7 / 10

a better second half

Dr. Susan Wheeler (Geneviève Bujold) and Dr. Mark Bellows (Michael Douglas) are resident surgeons in Boston Memorial Hospital and are living together. Her friend is a patient who falls into a coma after surgery. There has been a series of comas in the hospital. Susan starts investigating and stepping on many toes. Mark plays politics and is pressured to reel in his girlfriend. Susan discovers that all the comas come from one operating room and the patients get transferred to Jefferson Institute for long term care.Michael Crichton directs and adapts the novel by Robin Cook. It's got some very good paranoia thriller vibe during the second half. The first half can be a grind. Crichton is not the best at pushing the pace when the story isn't at its most intense. He could have had some help. Geneviève is not always the most animated actor. Her investigation could have been more compelling. It is an interesting movie with a great twist.
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