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Coma

Imagine your life hangs by a thread. Imagine your body hangs by a wire. Imagine you're not imagining.

1978 · 1h 53m · PG Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Michael Crichton

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Overview

When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.

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81%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Coma is an extremely entertaining suspense drama in the Hitchcock tradition.

Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh

See it and worry.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten

The aftereffect of Coma is a catlike yawn, benign and bored.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten

Michael Crichton's slow-paced thriller must have begun with something to say about the morality of the medical profession, but whatever it was is lost in the shuffle of unnecessary narrative detail.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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