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Flatliners (1990)

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Reviews Counted:21

Fresh:11

Rotten:10

Average Rating:5.3/10

Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

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... 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]

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

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

Director: Joel Schumacher

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

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09/05/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

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

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09/17/02
Clint Morris
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05/10/08
Cole Smithey
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01/18/04
Greg Maki
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Mark R. Leeper
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03/04/03
Mike McGranaghan
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07/26/02
Rob Vaux
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03/16/03
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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I'm just a sucker for the brat-pack psycho-thrillers.

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07/26/02
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
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01/24/04
Spence D.
Spence D.
IGN Movies

Potential is never fully explored.

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07/30/03
Alex Sandell
Alex Sandell
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06/25/05
Emanuel Levy
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03/27/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

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

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08/21/02
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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

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02/19/03
Kevin Fiddler
Kevin Fiddler
Henderson Home News (Henderson, NV)

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
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01/12/07
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
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Spooky but silly, effective in patches but a bust overall.

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08/15/03
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08/07/02
Philip Martin
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