Coma

Coma is a 1978 medical thriller set in a Boston hospital where young patients undergoing routine procedures unexpectedly lapse into comas. Dr. Susan Wheeler, a resident at the hospital, grows suspicious when the number of such cases keeps rising, and her investigation draws her toward an institute where the comatose patients are transferred. As she digs further, she finds evidence of a conspiracy operating behind the hospital's respectable facade, while her colleague and boyfriend, Dr. Mark Bellows, remains doubtful of her claims.

The film was directed by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay, following his debut Westworld and preceding The First Great Train Robbery the same year. Geneviève Bujold plays Dr. Wheeler, with Michael Douglas as Dr. Bellows. The supporting cast includes Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark and Lois Chiles, among 62 credited performers. Martin Erlichman produced the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release, which runs 113 minutes and was made for about 5 million dollars.

On IMDb, the film holds a rating of 6.9 from roughly 23,000 votes, and on TMDB it sits at 6.8 from about 470 votes. A critics' rating of 6.6 from 26 reviews places it close to the audience scores, indicating a generally moderate but steady reception rather than a sharply divided one.