Flatliners
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| Flatliners | |
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 Flatliners DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Joel Schumacher |
| Produced by | Michael Douglas Rick Bieber |
| Written by | Peter Filardi |
| Starring | Kiefer Sutherland Julia Roberts Kevin Bacon William Baldwin Oliver Platt |
| Music by | Lincoln Chase James Newton Howard David A. Stewart |
| Cinematography | Jan de Bont |
| Editing by | Robert Brown |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 10, 1990 |
| Running time | 111 min |
| Country | USA  |
| Language | English |
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Flatliners is a 1990 film starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt as medical students experimenting with near-death experiences.
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[edit] Synopsis
Promotional synopsis provided by the distributor
Are you afraid to die?
Nelson (Kiefer Sutherland) isn't. He's an ambitious, charismatic medical student who persuades classmates Rachel Mannus (Julia Roberts) and David Labraccio (Kevin Bacon) to take part in a reckless experiment. To see if there is life after death, they will kill themselves: temporarily shut down ("flatline") their heart and brain functions to briefly experience clinical death. After Nelson survives the first experiment the others flatline for increasingly longer intervals. But their horror begins when they realize that although they've come back alive...they haven't come back alone (their perceived sins start literally coming back with them until their need for atonement is realised).
Flatliners is a chilling suspense thriller of obsession, fear and redemption, that will take you across the line to a place where terror lives forever.
[edit] Cast
- Kiefer Sutherland - Nelson
- Julia Roberts - Rachel Mannus
- Kevin Bacon - David Labraccio
- William Baldwin - Joe Hurley
- Oliver Platt - Randy Steckle
- Kimberly Scott - Winnie Hicks
- Joshua Rudoy - Billy Mahoney
- Benjamin Mouton - Rachel's Father
- Hope Davis - Anne Coldren
[edit] Trivia
- The title refers to the flatline state of an EKG or EEG at death.
- This was Julia Robert's first role after Pretty Woman. She's stated that of all the movies she's made, her time on this one was the most fun. It was on the set of this film that she met Sutherland, whom she almost married.
- This movie was Hope Davis' film debut.
- There is a scene in which Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon travel to Bensenville, Illinois to beg forgiveness from an old classmate. They are seen driving south from Chicago on the wrong freeway.
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