Fresh
Coma is an extremely entertaining suspense drama in the Hitchcock tradition.
Variety Staff, Variety
Coma
Imagine your life hangs by a thread. Imagine your body hangs by a wire. Imagine you're not imagining.
1978 · 1h 53m · PG
Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Michael Crichton
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Coma
Overview
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 and cast
- Michael Crichton Director
- Geneviève Bujold as Dr. Susan Wheeler
- Michael Douglas as Dr. Mark Bellows
- Elizabeth Ashley as Mrs. Emerson
- Rip Torn as Dr. George
- Richard Widmark as Dr. Harris
- Lois Chiles as Nancy Greenly
- Lance LeGault as Vince
- Hari Rhodes as Dr. Morelind (as Harry Rhodes)
- Gary Barton as Computer Technician
- Frank Downing Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
81%
Tomatometer
Fresh
See it and worry.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
The aftereffect of Coma is a catlike yawn, benign and bored.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
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.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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