Imagine your life hangs by a thread. Imagine your body hangs by a wire. Imagine you're not imagining.
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.
Directed byMichael Crichton
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 53m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- January 6, 1978
- Budget
- $4,500,000
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Cast & crew
Geneviève Bujold
Dr. Susan Wheeler
Michael Douglas
Dr. Mark Bellows
Elizabeth Ashley
Mrs. Emerson
Rip Torn
Dr. George
Richard Widmark
Dr. Harris
Lois Chiles
Nancy Greenly
Lance LeGault
Vince
Hari Rhodes
Dr. Morelind
Gary Barton
Computer Technician
Frank Downing
Kelly
- Directed by
- Michael Crichton
- Written by
- Michael Crichton
- Produced by
- Martin Erlichman
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