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    Flatliners (1990)

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    Obsessed with stories of patients who were pronounced dead only to be revived a few minutes later, medical student Nelson Wright (Kiefer Sutherland) intrigues four of his friends when he decides to undertake a perilous experiment, involving temporary death, to determine whether there is an afterlife.

    Wright’s hope is that his apprehensive colleagues will be able to revive him when the monitors to which he is attached indicate his death by showing a “flat line” (a flat line on EKG and EEG machines signifies heart and brain death).

    Rachel (Julia Roberts) and David (Kevin Bacon) are among the other 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.

    One by one, they volunteer to be put into a clinical death state in order to be brought back to life and report on their experiences. But they aren’t prepared for what they discover on the other side.

    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.

    Nelson Wright
    Kiefer Sutherland
    Rachel Mannus
    Julia Roberts
    David Labraccio
    Kevin Bacon
    Joe Hurley
    William Baldwin
    Randy Steckle
    Oliver Platt
    Winnie Hicks
    Kimberly Scott
    Billy Mahoney
    Joshua Rudoy
    Rachel’s father
    Benjamin Mouton
    Young Nelson
    Aeryk Egan
    Young Winnie
    Kesha Reed
    Anne
    Hope Davis
    Uncle Dave
    Jim Ortlieb
    Young Labraccio
    John Joseph Duda
    Ben Hicks
    Afram Bill Williams
    Terry
    Deborah Thompson
    Rachel’s mother
    Elinore O’Connell
    Bridget
    Sanna Vraa

    Director
    Joel Schumacher

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