Lorsqu'une jeune femme médecin remarque un nombre anormal de personnes plongées dans le coma au sein de son hôpital, elle découvre une horrible conspiration.Lorsqu'une jeune femme médecin remarque un nombre anormal de personnes plongées dans le coma au sein de son hôpital, elle découvre une horrible conspiration.Lorsqu'une jeune femme médecin remarque un nombre anormal de personnes plongées dans le coma au sein de son hôpital, elle découvre une horrible conspiration.
- Récompenses
- 1 nomination au total
- Dr. Susan Wheeler
- (as Genevieve Bujold)
- Dr. Morelind
- (as Harry Rhodes)
- Vince
- (as Lance Le Gault)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesTwo versions of all scenes of the coma patients in the coma clinic were filmed. One version had them semi-naked whilst the other, for television screenings, had them covered-up.
- GaffesDark-haired stuntman falling down the stepped aisle of the lecture theatre, in place of fair-haired villain.
- Citations
Jim: First rule of crime: Keep It Simple. What's simple? Carbon Monoxide.
Pathology Resident #2: Boring.
Dr. Susan Wheeler: Carbon Monoxide?
Jim: Sure, it's perfect. Anesthetist feeds the patient some carbon monoxide instead of oxygen. It's colorless and makes the blood very red so the surgeon doesn't notice anything funny. But the brain dies from lack of oxygen. End of operation - the patient doesn't wake up.
Dr. Susan Wheeler: No other effects?
Pathology Resident #2: Sure, other effects. Cardiac irritability.
Jim: Which this case had.
Pathology Resident #2: You know, it'd be much better to block the neuro-muscular junction with succinylcholine. Now that's a nice murder.
Jim: Yeah, who's gonna do it?
Pathology Resident #2: Well, who's gonna feed you carbon monoxide?
Jim: That's the problem. Been about a dozen of these coma cases here in the last year. They're always different. Different case, different anesthetist, different operation. Hard to imagine it's murder.
- ConnexionsFeatured in Hollywood Hospital (2004)
The film is set in a Hospital which feels and looks just like the real one, what verisimilitude! There's something strange going on, but is she just imagining it or is there a real conspiracy? There are some stunning examples of locations, the Jefferson institute is amazing, I felt so freaked out by it.
Geneviève Bujold gives an excellent performance, really liked her, she had a lot of warmth, really felt for her and she kept her feminity throughout. Michael Douglas is good, but not great. I think the director could've added much more to his character.
The direction is pretty suspenseful, very slick and framed very well.
The screenplay isn't bad at all, any problems should've been rectified on set.
The film was framed at 1.66:1
A nice suspenseful picture, deserves more recognition.
- darth_sidious
- 21 déc. 2000
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Détails
Box-office
- Budget
- 4 500 000 $US (estimé)