Coma (US miniseries)
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| Genre | Medical thriller |
| Created by |
Robin Cook based on his novel |
| Based on |
Coma by Robin Cook |
| Developed by |
Ridley Scott Tony Scott |
| Written by | John J. McLaughlin |
| Directed by | Mikael Salomon |
| Starring |
Lauren Ambrose Steven Pasquale Geena Davis James Woods Ellen Burstyn Richard Dreyfuss James Rebhorn Joe Morton Michael Weston Joseph Mazzello |
| Composer(s) | David Buckley |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Ridley Scott Tony Scott David W. Zucker Martin Erlichman Mikael Salomon |
| Running time | 240 minutes (both parts with commercials) |
| Production company(s) | Sony Pictures Television, Warner Bros. Television, Scott Free Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | A&E |
| Original release | September 3 – September 4, 2012 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Coma is an American television miniseries based on the 1977 novel Coma by Robin Cook and the subsequent 1978 film Coma. The four-hour medical thriller was originally broadcast on A&E on September 3–4, 2012.
The series was directed by Mikael Salomon and produced by Ridley Scott and his brother Tony Scott, the same team that adapted The Andromeda Strain into the 2008 miniseries on A&E. The film is dedicated to Tony Scott, who died in August 2012, only weeks before its broadcast premiere.
Susan Wheeler (Lauren Ambrose) is a medical student starting her first year of training at the Peach Tree Memorial Hospital, built by her deceased grandfather. There she meets Dr. Mark Bellows (Steven Pasquale), Chief Surgical Resident, a doctor in a relationship with the Head of Psychiatry Dr. Agnetta Lindquist (Geena Davis). Wheeler discovers that an unusually high number of surgeries at the hospital have been ending in comas. These coma patients are being transferred to the mysterious Jefferson Institute, a hospital designed to take care of coma patients. It is run by Mrs. Emerson (Ellen Burstyn), who refers to the patients as her "babies". With the help of Dr. Bellows (and soon Dr. Theodore Stark (James Woods), Chief of Surgery), Wheeler investigates the comas, and before long, strange things begin to happen seemingly to stop her investigation: her roommate, who works at the hospital and who helped her to access confidential files, is suddenly fired; the hospital board tries to have her expelled from school; and she discovers cameras in her house. She is also stalked by Peter Arno (Michael Weston), who turns out to be a patient of Dr. Lindquist's and seems to be stalking Wheeler at Lindquist's behest. During one encounter with Wheeler, Peter puts a burlap sack over her head and tells her that if she does not stop looking into the comas, she will end up at Jefferson too.
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