Flatliners on DVD (1990)

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Starring:	Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt
Director:	Joel Schumacher
Studio:	UCA
Run time:	109 mins
Certificate:
User collections:	Films that top my list
Genres:	Drama
Languages:	English
Dubbed:	German
Subtitles:	Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
Released:	10/04/2004
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Brief synopsis of Flatliners

A tense thriller in which hot-shot medical students embark on a series of daring experiments to get a peek at the face of death. Stopping their hearts until the vital signs register as flat lines, they then revive the subject. The group doesn't count on bringing anything back from their near-death experiences, but each one does.

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Critics Reviews

Radio Times

This entertaining supernatural thriller from director Joel Schumacher poses the question: is there life after death? Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts and Kevin Bacon are among the medical students who are trying to find the answer by inducing their own temporary deaths in this gothic mix of old dark house and hi-tech laboratory. Schumacher puts more flash than flesh on the story, but still manages to deliver the expected chills with cool efficiency as the students' extracurricular experiments take a sinister turn. Trouble is, the afterlife stuff is rather too crudely clichéd.

Time Out

Medical school student Nelson Wright (Sutherland) is so obsessed with research into the near-death experience that he... Read more on www.timeout.com

Halliwell's Film Guide

Hectic fantasy, filmed in a restless manner.

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A customer from HAILSHAM , 07/07/2004

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 film. a must see for anyone who is ready (and yes you really do need to be ready) so order in pizza, get a group of friends together, turn out the lights and watch this superb film which throws belief and science fiction into a meltingpot. with an excellent cast to polish off the rest of this fantastic ensemble, this film is definately a must see movie.

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Great to revisit

ian southerland from Stockport, England , 30/12/2005

When this film first cam out I loved it! I loved the cast, I loved the premise behind it and I loved the eerie drama. It made me want to be a medical student in the the states and be as cool as the cast. Today I am older, heavier, not as cool, living in England still and not a doctor! But I still enjoyed this film a lot. It teters on the verge of falling into the void of Amercian setimental mush but holds it own - just. If I have one critism it would be that I spent much of the film getting very frustrated with Kieffer/Keiffer/Keith continually getting beaten up by a child. He should have decked him as soon as the lad started getting all agro with him. But then it would have made for a shorter film!

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