Coma
(1978) DVD - Widescreen & Full Screen - Dolby Digital
Mono Retail
Coma (1978) DVD - Widescreen & Full Screen - Dolby Digital Mono Retail
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Something
eerie is going on at Boston Memorial--patients with
minor problems are slipping into irreversible comas, and
a doctor is targeted when she suspects her colleagues of
foul play.
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 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. With its suspensful plot, dramatic editing,
and conspiratorial terror, COMA is a precursor to many
paranoid dramas such as THE FIRM and THE PELICAN BRIEF,
establishing a defined style that may yet become a genre
unto itself.
Filmed in Boston,
Boston City Hospital, and MA General Hospital, Boston,
Massachusetts!!
Starring: Elizabeth
Ashley, Gary Barton, Geneviève Bujold, Genevieve
Bujold, Lois Chiles, Michael Douglas, Frank Downing,
Richard Doyle, Hari Rhodes, Tom Selleck, Rip Torn,
Elmore Rual Torn, Richard Widmark
Directed By: Michael
Crichton
Release Information:
Studio: Warner Studios
Theatrical Release Date: January 6,
1978
DVD Release Date: February 3, 2004
Run Time: 113 minutes
Production Company: Warner Home
Video
Package Type: Snap Case
DVD Features:
Encoding:
Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only).
This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other
countries.