Story of a New England boys' school and of one of the students who is infatuated with an instructor's wife who has Multiple Sclerosis. The woman struggles to show her strict husband how love rather than demands helps the student to blossom, but finally she falls into a coma. While she is able to have some 'looking down' awareness of what is happening, her coma is what brings her husband to an understanding of the needs of others.
Acting
Joanna Going's physical performance pre- and post-coma is genuinely committed.
Writing
The 'looking down' coma awareness concept is... a choice.
Director
Howard Goldberg
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film barely exists on streaming and has 7 TMDB votes—you're in elite forgotten-cinema territory.
Released during the peak of 'prestige disability drama' era (My Left Foot, The Sea Inside), Eden's coma-as-awakening device feels like the genre eating its own tail.
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