Synopsis
A young female 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.
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Cast
- Geneviève BujoldDr. Susan Wheeler
- Michael DouglasDr. Mark Bellows
- Elizabeth AshleyMrs. Emerson
- Rip TornDr. George
- Richard WidmarkDr. Harris
- Lois ChilesNancy Greenly
- Hari RhodesDr. Morelind
- Richard DoyleJim
- Alan HaufrectDr. Marcus
- Lance LeGaultVince
Recommendations
- 100
Time Out London
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
Empire
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
TV Guide Magazine
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. - 40
The New York Times
Plausibility is not always important, but in a film as bereft of distinctive style and wit as Coma, it helps to believe in something. It can even help if one is offended. The aftereffect of Coma is a catlike yawn, benign and bored. - 40
Newsweek
Shorn of its medical shock value, Coma is nothing more than Nancy Drew Goes to Surgery, a creaky blend of red herrings, ominous stares, stale cliff-hangers and doom-laden music. [06 Feb 1978, p.86]
