

When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.
Direction
Crichton's clinical eye makes hospitals feel predatory.
Cinematography
That suspended body reveal—pure nightmare fuel.
Acting
Bujold's desperate conviction carries every frame.

Director
Michael Crichton
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Crichton was still an MD when he directed this; the surgical details are clinically accurate because he literally knew the procedures.
Released during the post-Watergate trust collapse, it weaponized institutional paranoia specifically through a woman's ignored warnings—Bujold's character was rare heroic agency for 1978.
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Was a good book and a decent movie. Now I want to watch it again .Bisset was such a beauty and Tom Selleck played a great corpse.
@eddenoy321 5
Ohhhh man was g watch this this week 🎬
@tishkerrville8942 4
Wooow, Nice drama medic
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