Directed by:
Michael CrichtonScreenplay:
Michael CrichtonCinematography:
Victor J. KemperComposer:
Jerry GoldsmithCast:
Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark, Lois Chiles, Hari Rhodes, Gary Barton, Richard Doyle, Lance LeGault (more)VOD (1)
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Dr. Susan Wheeler (Genevieve Bujold) suspects her colleagues of foul play when her closest friend lapses into a coma following a routine operation. When Wheeler discovers a suspiciously frequent pattern of unexplained comas in her hospital, she becomes obsessed with finding an answer, even when it puts her own career and life in danger. Her lover, Dr. Bellows (Michael Douglas), admits there is a mystery but doubts there is a conspiracy and even suspects Wheeler of suffering from a nervous breakdown. The tension builds as Wheeler's investigation leads her to a secret corporation specializing in organ transplant experimentation and sale for profit, and she soon witnesses the defining image of the film: comatose bodies suspended on wires in a computer-controlled environment. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Geneviève Bujold
Canada
Best movies:
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
The Moderns (1988)
Incorrigible (1975)
Michael Douglas
USA
Best movies:
The Game (1997)
Barbra: The Concert (1994) (concert)
Falling Down (1993)
Elizabeth Ashley
USA
Best movies:
Happiness (1998)
Mallrats (1995)
Split Image (1982)
Rip Torn
USA
Best movies:
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980) (TV movie)
Men in Black (1997)
Hercules (1997)
Richard Widmark
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Night and the City (1950)
Lois Chiles
USA
Best movies:
Death on the Nile (1978)
The Way We Were (1973)
Coma (1978)
Hari Rhodes
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Roots (1977) (series)
Shock Corridor (1963)
Gary Barton
USA
Best movies:
Coma (1978)
Richard Doyle
USA
Best movies:
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012)
Coma (1978)
Lance LeGault
USA
Best movies:
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Kenny Rogers as The Gambler (1980) (TV movie)
Michael MacRae
USA
Best movies:
Coma (1978)
Summer School (1987)
Run (1991)
Betty McGuire
Best movies:
Up in Smoke (1978)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Coma (1978)
Tom Selleck
USA
Best movies:
The Sacketts (1979) (TV movie)
Midway (1976)
Coma (1978)
Charles Siebert
USA
Best movies:
...And Justice for All (1979)
Coma (1978)
The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
William Wintersole
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love (1979) (TV movie)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Harry Basch
USA
Best movies:
Coma (1978)
The Stone Killer (1973)
Winning (1969)
Joanna Kerns
USA
Best movies:
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
V (1983) (TV movie)
Coma (1978)
Benny Rubin
USA
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Airport (1970)
Dick Balduzzi
USA
Best movies:
Columbo (1971) (series)
Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Coma (1978)
Mike Lally
USA
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)