Flatliners overview

Flatliners

Synopsis:

Despite its occasional lapses into silly self-consciousness, Flatliners is one of the most intriguing and well-constructed supernatural thrillers of the 1990s. A group of brilliant medical students decide to literally play with life and death. They put themselves in suspended animation, electronically inducing a near-deathlike state and then pulling out of it at the last possible moment. Things get hairy when one of the students (Kiefer Sutherland) becomes obsessed with the notion of really dying, the better to experience the Afterlife before being revived--if he can be revived.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Joel Schumacher
  • Studio: Stonebridge Entertainment, Columbia Pictures
  • Year: 1990
  • Run Time: 114 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: R
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Science Fiction, Thriller
  • Filmed in: Color
  • Release: 1990 08 10 (USA)