Look for Tom Selleck as one of the comatose bodies suspended from the ceiling of a clandestine medical lab-the most memorably eerie image in the film. On the whole, however, COMA wastes a superb performance by Bujold on a simplistic, predictable series of cliched suspense scenes, seasoned with some last-minute moralizing aboutĬontemporary medicine.

Genre-insistently presenting events from a female point-of-view-the film has won favor among some feminist critics. As a rare attempt to invert some of the gender conventions of the thriller Lover (Michael Douglas) with the information, he refuses to believe her, and she sets out alone to expose the sinister conspiracy.Īdapted from the best-selling book by Robin Cook, COMA is the second feature directed by doctor-novelist-filmmaker Crichton (the first was the popular WESTWORLD), who later scripted the phenomenal JURASSIC PARK. Michael Douglas is Bujold's doctor boyfriend, who she suspects may be in on the plot and Tom Selleck stars as a bit-part beefcake patient with desirable organs.Ī chiller with an edge, Coma capitalised superbly on the post-Watergate paranoia rampaging through the States, playing on the fear that your killer doesn't always come bearing an axes or chainsaws, but as a smiling doctor in a white coat.Ĭrichton's past in the medical profession help him to create a believable setting and cast of characters from a game adaptaiton of Robin Cook's successful novel, almost two decades before his ER hit the small screen.Īnd Bujold gives the finest performance of her career, closely resembling Sigourney Weaver's Ripley (Alien) as a woman forced to be strong beyond her wildest imagination, until a rather mundane plot twist does its best to send her from heroine to damsel in distress.An inquisitive hospital physician (Genevieve Bujold) discovers that unscrupulous higher-ups on the staff are drugging healthy patients into a comatose state, killing them, and selling their organs to rich patients in desperate need of transplants. Susan begins to investigate the causes behind both of these alarming comas and discovers the oxygen line in. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications from anesthesia. Hospital life, death and hanky panky, are injected with a massive dose of suspense when doctor Genevieve Bujold unviels a murder-for-body-parts conspiracy. Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital.

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