Coma (1978)
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Reviews Counted: 20 Fresh: 15 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 6.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Robin Cook, COMA is a taught paranoid thriller and a dramatically apt metaphor for the corruption and fraud in the modern American health-care industry. Dr. Susan Wheeler (Genevieve Bujold) suspects her colleagues of foul play when her closest friend... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Richard Widmark, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn
Director: Michael Crichton
Screenwriter: Michael Crichton
Producer: Martin Erlichman
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Screenwriter: Michael Crichton
Producer: Martin Erlichman
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
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A suspense-filled nailbiter that plays on a fear no weapon weidling psycho can top.
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11/27/07
This is a tidy conspiracy-theory thriller from Crichton, who accentuates the tension by packing it into a wholly believable, human framework.
11/27/07
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.
11/27/07
Coma is an extremely entertaining suspense drama in the Hitchcock tradition.
11/27/07
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Genevieve Bujold puts in one of the strongest performances of her career in this well-done thriller.
01/24/04
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.
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