Coma is a 1978 suspense film based on the novel Coma by Robin Cook. The film rights were acquired by director Michael Crichton, and the movie was produced by Martin Erlichmann for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The cast included Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Richard Widmark, and Rip Torn.
The film is in color with stereo sound and runs for 113 minutes. It is notable for the intense paranoia which pervades the film, similar to other films of the 70s such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Conversation, The Stepford Wives, and earlier, Rosemary's Baby.
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in coma's. 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. Written by Colin Tinto
Dr Susan Wheeler is devastated when her best friend is pronounced brain dead after minor surgery at her hospital. Looking at the records, Susan finds that over the previous year a number of other fit young people have ended up the same way. She comes across two similarities to the cases - they all took place in the same operating theatre, and all the comatose bodies were moved to somewhere called the Jefferson Institute. She continues to investigate increasingly alone, starting to wonder if she can trust even her own boyfriend. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Dr. Susan Wheeler (Bujold) smells trouble when a patient of hers goes into an irreversible coma after routine surgery. On further investigation she finds out that several young, otherwise healthy patients are entering irreversible comas after routine surgeries. These comatose patients are then "shipped" off to a mysterious institute. When Susan tells her physician boyfriend (Douglas) about what she's discovered, he's reluctant to believe her. Written by Derek O'Cain
The film was shelved due to frequent protests and threats by religious extremists. It sold more than 500,000,000 riyals in 5 days before being shut down.
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