Michael Crichton's 1978 film of Robin Cook's novel COMA is a great little thriller. Healthy patients are checking into a large Boston hospital for routine procedures and slipping into comas at an alarming rate.
Genevieve Bujold is a young doctor that refuses to accept the comas as coincidence, Michael Douglas is her doctor boyfriend and Rip Torn and Richard Widmark play good guys and bad guys but don't look to me to tell you which is which.
A classic 70's Jerry Goldsmith score, made all the more amazing by the fact that there isn't a note of music for the first 45 minutes, then once it starts it barely lets go of you!
Look for Tom Selleck & Lois Chiles in very small early roles. Suspenseful, exciting and engaging COMA is guaranteed to keep you awake!
We'll diagnose it with a B.
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