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Despite its occasional lapses into silly self-consciousness, Flatliners is one of the most intriguing and well-constructed supernatural thrillers of the 1990s. A group of brilliant medical students decide to literally play with life and death. They put themselves in suspended animation, electronically inducing a near-deathlike .. Read more
| Starring | Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin |
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| Director | Joel Schumacher |
| Genres | Thriller |
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Despite its occasional lapses into silly self-consciousness, Flatliners is one of the most intriguing and well-constructed supernatural thrillers of the 1990s. A group of brilliant medical students decide to literally play with life and death. They put themselves in suspended animation, electronically inducing a near-deathlike state and then pulling out of it at the last possible moment. Things get hairy when one of the students (Kiefer Sutherland) becomes obsessed with the notion of really dying, the better to experience the Afterlife before being revived--if he can be revived. In her first dramatic starring role (playing a sensitive young lady on a misguided guilt trip), Julia Roberts is very, very good--completely bereft of movie-star mannerisms. Audiences flocked to see Flatliners back in 1990 due to the highly publicized off-screen romance between Roberts and Sutherland. Oh, yes: Kevin Bacon and William Baldwin are in the picture, too.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt |
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| Director | Joel Schumacher |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 49 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 54 mins |
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| Genres | Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Dubbed | German |
| Subtitles | DVD: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | Production year: 1990 To Rent: DVD: 10 Apr 2004 Blu-ray: not available Blu-ray: 02 Jul 2007 |
Medical school student Nelson Wright (Sutherland) is so obsessed with research into the near-death experience that he... read more on Time Out
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this is a film that ...
this is a film that creates an atmosphere from the word go. snapping you to attention and making you seriously think hard about what is contained within the ... read more »
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original and very exciting
original and really good, good casts and .. everything :) expecially if you were always interested in what can happen after death. you can`t figure out what ... read more »
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Very original, clever and disturbing.
DESPITE the fact that FLATLINERS (1990) was released at a time in my life when I was going through a really bad time - I still like this film very much. It is ... read more »
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Death Will Become You??
A Very Ludicrous, but Fascinating film...Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Julia Roberts were totally the right cast for this In my opinion. ... read more »
Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland's 1990 medical thriller Flatliners is to be brought back to life. Columbia Pictures executives have commissioned Source Code screenwriter Ben Ripley to revamp the storyline for a planned remake, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The original chronicled a group of medical school students dabbling with death as they investigated myths about the afterlife. The film also featured Kevin Bacon and was directed by Joel Schumacher. Read more