COMAÂ (15)
D: Michael Crichton
United Artists (Martin Erlichman)
USA 🇺🇸 1978
113 mins
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Thriller
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W: Michael Crichton [based on the novel by Robin
Cook]
DP: Victor J. Kemper & Gerald
Hirschfeld
Ed: David Bretherton
Mus: Jerry Goldsmith
PD: Albert Brenner
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Genevieve Bujold (Dr. Susan Wheeler), Michael
Douglas (Dr. Mark Bellows), Elizabeth Ashley (Mrs. Emerson), Rip Torn (Dr. George), Richard Widmark (Dr. Harris), Lois Chiles (Nancy Greenly), Hari Rhodes (Dr. Moralind)
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Hitchcockian style suspense set in a hospital,
where a female doctor discovers that patients are being deliberately put into comas so that their organs can be harvested.
It's a grizzly watch, with more dead characters
than living ones. Director/screenwriter Michael Crichton does a good job bringing Robin Cook's work to the screen, but it's impossible to wonder what the master of suspense would have
made of it.
6/10
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