She’s brilliant, and she perfectly suits a film that deals with the difficulty women face in communicating effectively with men.Ĭoma is the third film that Michael Crichton directed, and comes five years after Westworld (1973) in which he builds similar eerie feelings of tension and isolation. The camera doesn’t make friends with her she stands confrontationally before us and refuses to back down, lifting up her chin, not inviting us to warm to her. Geneviève Bujold plays Dr Susan Wheeler, a prickly, driven character who works hard, and stands up for herself at the end of the long day when her boyfriend Mark (Michael Douglas) suggests she might fetch him a beer before starting to cook dinner. Things are not so straightforward in the likeability department by the time we come to Coma (1978), and that’s what’s really interesting about it. He drives the action so we root for him, and we want him to get the answers he’s looking for. Redford was one of the biggest movie stars of the 1970s because he played the everyman so well in this kind of thriller. Those two films in particular have the common link of Robert Redford, who plays the man trapped in the middle of terrifying events. Often the storylines tied in to big political events, such as Three Days Of The Condor (1975) which reflected revelations about the CIA, and All The President’s Men (1976) which dealt directly with Watergate.

Then Susan discovers the evil nature of the Jefferson Institute, an intensive care facility where patients are suspended from the ceiling and kept alive until they can be harvested for healthy organs.The 1970s was a great decade for the conspiracy thriller. Susan begins to investigate the causes behind both of these alarming comas and discovers the oxygen line in Operating Room 8 has been tampered with to induce carbon monoxide poisoning. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications from anesthesia.

Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. They called it 'minor surgery,' but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others-all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures-were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. Description: The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre-the medical thriller-is now available in trade paperback for the first time.

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