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Dominican Rep. Coma
- Original title
- Coma
- Year
- 1978
- Running time
- 113 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Michael Crichton. Novel: Robin Cook
- Cast
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Michael Douglas
Geneviève Bujold
Richard Widmark
Ed Harris
Elizabeth Ashley
Tom Selleck
Rip Torn
Lois Chiles
Joanna Kerns- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Mystery. Thriller. Drama | Medical. Crime
- Movie Groups
- Robin Cook Adaptations
- Synopsis
- Something is awry at Boston General Hospital. Dr. Wheeler's (Genevieve Bujold) friend Nancy goes in for a routine procedure, but never comes out of the anesthesia and slips into a coma. Wheeler learns that a tissue sample from the young woman went to the lab, then soon finds out that a high number of patients have become comatose recently. She digs a little deeper and finds a conspiracy mired in hospital politics, running afoul of the head of anesthesia, Dr. George (Rip Torn) and the head of surgery, Dr. Harris (Richard Widmark). Nobody believes the young MD, not even her boyfriend Dr. Bellows (Michael Douglas), but she soon uncovers a black-market trade in body parts, conducted offsite at the Jefferson Institute, a state-of-the-art coma-care facility.
- Critics' reviews
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"[It] 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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"An extremely entertaining suspense drama in the Hitchcock tradition."
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"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."
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