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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

US Box Office: $0

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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05/10/08
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

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01/12/07
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com
N/R

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01/26/06
Time Out

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06/25/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

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03/27/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice

No review available.

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01/24/04
Spence D.
Spence D.
IGN Movies

No review available.

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01/18/04
Greg Maki
Greg Maki
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

No review available.

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

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

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08/15/03
Nick Davis
Nick Davis
Nick's Flick Picks

Potential is never fully explored.

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07/30/03
Alex Sandell
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum
N/R

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05/20/03
Caryn James
Caryn James
New York Times
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03/16/03
Robert Roten
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope

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03/04/03
Mike McGranaghan
Mike McGranaghan
Aisle Seat

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)

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01/29/03
Wesley Lovell
Wesley Lovell
Oscar Guy

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

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09/17/02
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

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)

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
Larry Carroll
Countingdown.com

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

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

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07/26/02
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com
 
 
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