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Flatliners
Sign in to saveFlatliners is a 1990 American science fiction psychological horror film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Michael Douglas and Rick Bieber, and written by Peter Filardi. It stars Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon. The film is about five medical students who attempt to find out what lies beyond death by conducting clandestine experiments that produce near-death experiences. The film was shot on the campus of Loyola University Chicago between October 1989 and January 1990, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing in 1990 (
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6.5Five medical students experiment with "near death" experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives.
Cast
- Kiefer Sutherland as Nelson Wright
- Julia Roberts as Rachel Mannus
- Kevin Bacon as David Labraccio
- William Baldwin as Joe Hurley
- Oliver Platt as Randy Steckle
- Kimberly Scott as Winnie Hicks
Themes
- life and death
- afterlife
- haunted by the past
- medical student
- near-death experience
- college student
- medical experiment
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Ratings
IMDb
6.6/10
97,935 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
50%
Metacritic
55/100
- Year
- 1990
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 nominations total
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Key facts
- Film.name
- Flatliners
- Film.image
- Flatliners.jpg
- Film.caption
- Theatrical release poster by John Alvin
- Film.director
- Joel Schumacher
- Film.writer
- Peter Filardi
- Film.music
- James Newton Howard
- Film.cinematography
- Jan de Bont
- Film.editing
- Robert Brown
- Film.studio
- Stonebridge Entertainment
- Film.distributor
- Columbia Pictures
- Film.runtime
- 114 minutes
- Film.country
- United States
- Film.language
- English
- Film.budget
- $26 million
- Film.gross
- $61.5 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 115
- FilmAffinity ID
- 880513
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- Commons category
- Flatliners
- publication date
- 1990-11-22
- title
- Flatliners
- capital cost
- 26000000
- review score
- 55/100
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10 sectionsContents
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- Follow-up
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Flatliners is a 1990 American science fiction psychological horror film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Michael Douglas and Rick Bieber, and written by Peter Filardi. It stars Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon. The film is about five medical students who attempt to find out what lies beyond death by conducting clandestine experiments that produce near-death experiences. The film was shot on the campus of Loyola University Chicago between October 1989 and January 1990, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing in 1990 (Charles L. Campbell and Richard C. Franklin). The film was theatrically released on August 10, 1990, by Columbia Pictures. It grossed $61 million at the box office.
A follow-up film directed by Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev was released in September 2017, also featuring Sutherland in a starring role.