Coma (miniseries, 2012)

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Movie
German title coma
Original title Coma
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2012
length 153 minutes
Rod
Director Mikael Salomon
script John J. McLaughlin
Robin Cook
production James Spies
music David Buckley
camera Ben Nott
cut Scott Vickrey
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Koma is a remake of the medical thriller by Michael Crichton from 1978. The film is based on the novel Koma (Original title: Coma ) by Robin Cook from 1977.

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Susan Wheeler is a first year medical student at the Peach Tree Memorial Hospital, which was built by her late grandfather. There she meets Dr. Mark Bellows, in specialist training in surgery and currently in a relationship with the head of psychiatry, Dr. Agnetta Lindquist (Geena Davis). Susan learns that an unusually high number of operations in the hospital end up in a coma. These coma patients are transferred to the mysterious Jefferson Institute, a hospital for the care of coma patients. It is run by Mrs. Emerson, who calls the patients "their babies". With the help of Dr. Bellows and soon also Dr. Theodore Stark, Senior Surgeon, examines Susan's coma attacks, and it doesn't take long before strange things seemingly randomly obstructing her investigation: her roommate, who also works in the hospital and helped her to gain access to confidential files, is suddenly discharged ; hospital management tries to expel her from school and she discovers cameras in her home. It is also supported by Peter Arno, who is a patient of Dr. Lindquist turns out to be stalked on their instructions.

During a tour of the Jefferson Institute, which Susan is attending, she discovers inhuman practices. Metal rods have been inserted into the patient's bones to make them easier to transport. She contacts Dr. Strong with evidence, but he's in a car accident and comatose. Susan and Dr. Bellows, who has since ended his relationship with Dr. Lindquist quits because he believes she is involved in the conspiracy, together find out that various hospital staff and some doctors keep getting large sums of money from the Jefferson Institute. They also found that all patients whose surgery ended in a coma were operated on in the same room. The patients are pumped full of carbon monoxide through a pipe that comes from the cellar. As a result, brain death occurs unnoticed in the patient. Peter tries to kill Susan while she is collecting evidence. But when he fails, he slits his own throat and dies.

Susan is eventually captured and taken to the Jefferson Institute, where there are plans to put her into a coma. Susan breaks out, albeit heavily sedated, and tries to escape from the hospital. She hallucinates that she is underwater. When she escapes, she finds out the whole truth about the institute: the Jefferson Institute is a laboratory for human experiments and an organ farm. The Jefferson Institute directed the Peach Tree Memorial to purposely put patients predisposed to certain diseases into coma, and then used the bodies for organ harvesting. Pregnant patients use parts of the fetus or the umbilical cord for stem cell tests, for example. Eventually she meets Professor Hillside, her PhD supervisor, who tells her that he and Susan's late grandfather, Dr. Wheeler, who are masterminds of the Jefferson Institute and thus the institute is their legacy. Susan is disturbed that this barbarism is being carried out in the name of medical advancement.

Meanwhile, Dr. Bellows and cop Jackson investigating Susan stalking and Peter's death at Dr. Strong on. There you will find the majority of the doctors who have come to a memorial service for Dr. Have strongly gathered; Dr. Stark died a few hours earlier during the operation. Dr. Nelson, head of anesthesia and part of the conspiracy, appears to be driven by guilt and tells the police and Dr. Bellows that they can find Susan at the Jefferson Institute. The police and Dr. Bellows drive into the institute and witness the horror. They arrest Professor Hillside and Dr. Bellows discovers Susan, who stabbed Mrs. Emerson with a syringe in self-defense, in a drain.

The miniseries ends with Susan awakening in a hospital with Dr. Bellows by her side. She tells him she had a terrible dream: "I dreamed that I was under water and I couldn't get out". Dr. Bellows tells her: "It was just a dream" and receives a text message with a picture of Dr. Lindquist, who asks him to meet her in a hospital in China. Dr. Bellows sees Susan and repeats, "It was just a dream."

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  • Location: Atlanta , Georgia , USA
  • The miniseries aired in the United States on September 3rd and 4th, 2012 by A&E. In Germany it ran on January 2, 2013, shortened by 87 minutes on the pay-TV channel Sky in two episodes.

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