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Flatliners (1990)

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Reviews Counted: 21 Fresh: 11  Rotten:10 Average Rating: 5.3/10

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Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins

Synopsis: Using themselves as guinea pigs, a group of medical students decide to experiment with life after death and find out what's really awaiting them on the "other side." One by one they each take turns "flatlining" -- stopping their hearts and brains to create a condition of clinical death... Using themselves as guinea pigs, a group of medical students decide to experiment with life after death and find out what's really awaiting them on the "other side." One by one they each take turns "flatlining" -- stopping their hearts and brains to create a condition of clinical death registered as a flat line on the EKG and EEG monitors. They then use emergency procedures to resuscitate each other. Things get increasingly dangerous as the flatliners become more daring, attempting to remain dead for longer and longer periods of time. The leader of the group, plagued by a demon that has followed him back from the world beyond, soon discovers that there is a price to pay for tampering with the line between life and death. [More]

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt

Director: Joel Schumacher
Composer: James Newton Howard
Screenwriter: Peter Filardi
Producer: Michael Douglas, Rick Bieber

DVD Info

Release:

Jul 3, 2007

[DVD Details]

Blu-ray Features:

  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • PCM 5.1 - English
  • (unspecified) - French, German - Optional
  • Subtitles - Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Solvene, Swedish, Turkish - Optional

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01/12/07
Michael Dequina
Mr. Brown's Movies
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03/27/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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01/24/04
Spence D.
IGN Movies
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01/18/04
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)
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09/05/03
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
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2/5

Spooky but silly, effective in patches but a bust overall.

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08/15/03
Nick Davis
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2/5

Potential is never fully explored.

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07/30/03
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum
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05/20/03
Caryn James
New York Times
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3/4

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03/16/03
Robert Roten
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3/5

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03/04/03
Mike McGranaghan
Aisle Seat
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2/5

Creepy, almost as creepy as Keifer Sutherland's five'o'clock shadow

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02/19/03
Kevin Fiddler
Henderson Home News (Henderson, NV)
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01/29/03
Wesley Lovell
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3/5

Terrifyingly real, Freakishly unforgettable - One of Schumacher's best movies.

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09/17/02
Clint Morris
Moviehole
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2/5

Typically flat Schumacher effort--a lot of purple smoke, though

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08/21/02
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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A horrible, dumb movie that wastes the time of the good actors involved. This should have been an early indication that Joel Schumacher needed to be stopped.

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08/08/02
Larry Carroll
Countingdown.com
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2/5

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08/07/02
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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3.5/5

I'm just a sucker for the brat-pack psycho-thrillers.

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07/26/02
Scott Weinberg
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