Coma (1978)

A hospital in Boston has quite a few young patients go into comas for some unknown reasons. No one seems to notice until Susan Wheeler (Genevieve Bujold) has a friend die in a routine operation. A hospital in Boston has quite a few young patients go into comas for some unknown reasons. No one seems to notice until Susan Wheeler (Genevieve Bujold) has a friend go into a coma in a routine operation. She notices that other comas are happening. Her boyfriend (Mich-ael Douglas) steers her away from thinking about it. A virile man (Tom Selleck) undergoes an operation days later and he too is taken away unconscious. Susan gets the computer technician to print out data about the hospital and finds they all happen in a certain operation room. She visits this center where the coma victims are held (or should I say hung) and learns that a futuristic (and kewl) technology preserves these people for the business of selling organs. She is chased by guards but escapes and returns home frantically to her boyfriend who makes her paranoid by making a telephone call. She confronts the chief of surgery but he gives her something that causes her to pass out and then tries to perform surgery on her in that certain coma operating room but is saved from that and he gets his comeuppance. I see a lack of reality in making her do this on her own and discover everything but COMA stays focussed to engage our emotions. [4.1 stars]