Coma

Douglas and Bujold star in this Hitchcockian thriller as two medics who stumble across a sinister corporation that illicitly recycles human body parts., Dr. Susan Wheeler 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., 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 comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects that there is more to this than meets the eye., Taut medical thriller in which a Boston doctor uncovers a dangerous conspiracy when she investigates unexplained deaths at her hospital. Her suspicions are aroused by an alarmingly high number of fatalities following minor operations. Her enquiries are blocked by her superiors at first, and, when she persists, she finds her own life is in danger. Director Michael Crichton’s screenplay is based on the novel by Robin Cook., A female doctor investigates a series of strange deaths and disappearing bodies at her hospital in Coma based on the novel by Michael Crichton. With Chinese subtitles., The film follows the lives of four patients recovering from their coma, documenting the effects of their brain injuries and recovery journey., Taut medical thriller in which a Boston doctor uncovers a dangerous conspiracy when she investigates unexplained deaths at her hospital. Her suspicions are aroused by an alarmingly high number of fatalities following minor operations. Her enquiries are blocked by her superiors at first, and, when she persists, she finds her own life is in danger. Director Michael Crichton’s screenplay is based on the novel by Robin Cook, Genevieve Bujold plays a doctor who turns detective to unearth a deadly conspiracy at a hospital., Michael Douglas and Genevieve Bujold star in this Hitchcockian medical thriller about the illicit recycling of body parts., A female doctor turns detective to unearth a deadly conspiracy involving harvesting organs at the hospital where she is performing her residency., 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 medical records include her boss, Dr. Harris (Richard Widmark); the chief anesthesiologist, Dr. George (Rip Torn); and even her boyfriend, Dr. Mark Bellows (Michael Douglas), who doesn’t want Susan’s shenanigans to get in the way of his shot at chief resident. As Susan continues her crusade, the paper trail leads to the Jefferson Institute, a mysterious, experimental facility in which vegetative patients are stored en masse, suspended from the ceiling by wires threaded through their long bones, in order to reduce the cost of long-term care. A shadowy assailant begins to stalk Susan just as she uncovers the link between the Jefferson Institute and the comas at Boston Memorial, setting the stage for climactic suspense scenes involving morgues, malpractice and endless institutional corridors. Writer/director Michael Crichton adapted his second feature film from Robin Cook’s bestseller of the same name. Tom Selleck, who would star in Crichton’s Runaway several years later, appears briefly in Coma as another victim of lethal anesthesia.