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Action/Adventure
Based on the best-selling novel by Robin
Cook, COMA is a taught paranoid thriller and a dramatically
apt metaphor for the corruption and fraud in the modern
American health-care industry. Dr. Susan Wheeler (Genevieve
Bujold) 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. Her
lover, Dr. Bellows (Michael Douglas), admits there
is a mystery but doubts there is a conspiracy and
even suspects Wheeler of suffering from a nervous
breakdown. The tension builds as Wheeler's investigation
leads her to a secret corporation specializing in
organ transplant experimentation and sale for profit,
and she soon witnesses the defining image of the film:
comatose bodies suspended on wires in a computer-controlled
environment.
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