Coma (1978)
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Reviews Counted: 24
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 5
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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 2
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A feisty, feminist intern uncovers a medical conspiracy in this icy thriller about mysterious goings-on at Boston Memorial Hospital. When her best friend and aerobics partner, Nancy Greenly (Lois Chiles), emerges in a vegetative state from a routine abortion, Dr. Susan Wheeler (Genevieve Bujold) does some digging and discovers an overabundance of anesthesia-induced comas among otherwise healthy young patients. The male authority figures who challenge Susan's technically illegal tampering with
Jan 6, 1978 Wide
Jan 29, 2008
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Cast
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Geneviève Bujold
Dr. Susan Wheeler -
Michael Douglas
Dr. Mark Bellows -
Elizabeth Ashley
Mrs. Emerson -
Rip Torn
Dr. George -
Richard Widmark
Dr. Harris -
Lance Le Gault
Vince -
Lois Chiles
Nancy Greenly -
Hari
Dr. Morelind -
Gary Barton
Computer Technician -
Frank Downing
Kelly -
Richard Doyle
Jim -
Alan Haufrect
Dr. Marcus -
Michael MacRae
Chief Resident -
Betty McGuire
Nurse -
Tom Selleck
Sean Murphy -
Charles Siebert
Dr. Goodman -
William Wintersole
Lab Technician -
Ernest Anderson
First Doctor -
Harry Basch
Second Doctor -
Joe Bratcher
Surgical Resident -
Kay Cole
Sally -
Maury Cooper
Doctor -
Sarina C. Grant
Woman in Elevator -
Ed Harris
Pathology Resident #... -
David Hollander
Jimmy -
Joanna Kerns
Diane -
David McKnight
Man in Elevator -
Roger Newman
Surgical Resident -
Joni Palmer
Dance Instructor -
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Lois Walden
Nurse -
Benny Rubin
Mr. Schwartz -
Martin Speer
Surgical Resident -
Dick Balduzzi
First Maintenance Ma... -
Gary Bisig
Second Maintenance M... -
Gerald Berns
Security Guard -
Duane Tucker
First Man in Shower -
Michael Lally
Security Man -
Paul Ryan
First Technician -
Robert Burton
Pathology Resident #... -
Amentha Dymally
Nurse -
Wyatt Johnson
Second Cop -
Kurt Andon
First Cop -
Gerald Benston
Anesthetist -
Tom Borut
Dr. Cowans -
Philip G. Brooks
Dr. Richards -
Sue Bugden
Nurse -
Paul Davidson
Surgical Resident -
Sharron Frame
Nurse -
Edward C. Higgins
Security guard #2 -
Del Hinkley
Second Man in Shower -
Susie Luner
Nurse -
John Widlock
Norman -
Michael Mann
Second Technician
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All Critics (24) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (5) | DVD (6)
Coma is an extremely entertaining suspense drama in the Hitchcock tradition.
Top CriticSee it and worry.
The aftereffect of Coma is a catlike yawn, benign and bored.
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.
The boys'-club politics at the hospital provide the picture with interesting subtext right in line with the sexual dynamics of the period; Bujold proves to be a worthy champion for the feminist cause.
...a genuinely suspenseful mystery thriller, with a conspiracy angle unfolding in due course without a lot of fuss and bother.
Audiences used to a faster pace today will find the talky first half tough going.
More entertaining than credible.
A suspense-filled nailbiter that plays on a fear no weapon weidling psycho can top.
This is a tidy conspiracy-theory thriller from Crichton, who accentuates the tension by packing it into a wholly believable, human framework.
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.
A superb suspense-thriller.
Well acted thriller
Pretty creepy stuff hanging around here.
corny classic thriller
Micheal Crichton in his heyday
Genevieve Bujold puts in one of the strongest performances of her career in this well-done thriller.
Adequate Michael Crichton thriller.
Crichton does Cook in this engaging (if dated) medical thriller.
So scary and so effective after all those years.
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