Flatliners
Directed by Joel Schumacher
Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to intensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure.
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Flatliners Ratings & Reviews
- JeremiahMay 11, 2026I’ve always loved the premise of this movie. I love the performances. I love the look. I love the stylistic flair. I enjoy the pacing. It’s spiritual and traumatic and existential and original. It’s rich and saturated, both in look and themes, its atmospheric and moody. It had a ton to love about it. And despite all that i have never truly loved it as a whole. You wait the whole movie for the payoffs to each characters plights, some are ok-ish resolutions and some not so much, and then they just sorta forgot William Baldwins conclusion. And yet I return to this movie every few years to drink in all the things that you can love. I just wish it could congeal into the pure awesome I've always wanted it to be. Still, as is, it’s a solid movie with a few shortcomings. Julia is delivering the goods here while looking absolutely immaculate. Kiefer and Kevin playing their characters to a T and looking cool as hell doing so. Oliver is giving us, but never annoyingly, a path of levity in all its heaviness. And then William is there too… I can say that about alot of William performances.
- Daniel GustavssonOctober 11, 2024I had high hopes for this movie because I love the concept of it. Sadly the movie is somewhat poorly executed and the acting is pretty bad and the dialogues are cheesy. The story is also majorly dissapointing at times. They had a few good ideas though, and the movie actually has some intense parts. But it doesn't last very long.
Flatliners Trivia
Flatliners was released on August 10, 1990.
Flatliners was directed by Joel Schumacher.
Flatliners has a runtime of 1h 55m.
Flatliners was produced by Michael Douglas, Rick Bieber.
Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to intensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure.
The key characters in Flatliners are Nelson Wright (Kiefer Sutherland), Rachel Mannus (Julia Roberts), David Labraccio (Kevin Bacon).
Flatliners is rated R.
Flatliners is a Drama, Horror, Science Fiction film.
Flatliners has an audience rating of 5.9 out of 10.
Flatliners had a budget of $26M.
Flatliners has made $61.5M at the box office.