Hot-shot medical students embark on a series of daring experiments to get a peek at the face of death. Stopping their hearts until the vital signs register as flat lines, they then revive the subject. The group doesn't count on bringing anything back from their near-death experiences, but each one does. Academy award Nominations: Best Sound Effects Editing.
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Julia Roberts as Rachel Mannus Kevin Bacon as David Labraccio Kiefer Sutherland as Nelson William Baldwin as Joe Hurley
Joe Hurley: I don't know. Not thinking about the past or the future. I don't know it's difficult to explain, maybe impossible.
David Labraccio: Yeah, dying is quite that way.
In medical slang, a "flatline" is when a person suffers clinical and mental death. Ironically, the film FLATLINERS does the same thing about halfway through. It starts out a fascinating drama about a group of medical students who have found a way to induce death and bring themselves back to life, experiencing the mystery of the afterlife and living to tell abotu it. It ends up becoming a supernatural thriller reminiscent of the most mediocre Stephen King TV-movie adaptations.
