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Overview

User Rating:
6.4/10   21,568 votes
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Director:

Joel Schumacher

Writer (WGA):

Peter Filardi (written by)

Contact:

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Release Date:

10 August 1990 (USA) more

Genre:

Horror | Thriller | Sci-Fi more

Tagline:

Some lines shouldn't be crossed.

Plot:

Medical students bring themselves near death; their experiment begins to go awry. full summary | add synopsis

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 nominations more

NewsDesk:
(14 articles)

How 'Flatliners' Went From a Verb to a Noun
 (From The Wrap. 9 November 2009, 5:05 PM, PST)

Sutherland 'had no passion with Roberts'
 (From digitalspy. 29 May 2009, 7:33 AM, PDT)

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When you come back, come back alone..... more (121 total)


Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Kiefer Sutherland ... Nelson

Julia Roberts ... Dr. Rachel Mannus

Kevin Bacon ... David Labraccio

William Baldwin ... Dr. Joe Hurley

Oliver Platt ... Randy Steckle

Kimberly Scott ... Winnie Hicks
Joshua Rudoy ... Billy Mahoney

Benjamin Mouton ... Rachel's Father
Aeryk Egan ... Young Nelson
Kesha Reed ... Young Winnie

Hope Davis ... Anne Coldren

Jim Ortlieb ... Uncle Dave
John Duda ... Young David (as John Joseph Duda)
Megan Stewart ... Playground Kid

Tressa Thomas ... Playground Kid
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Additional Details

Runtime:

115 min | Finland:110 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | CDS (digital 35 mm prints) | Dolby (analog 35 mm prints)

Filming Locations:

Bensenville, Illinois, USA more


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

When David Labraccio (Kevin Bacon) goes to visit Winnie Hicks ('Kimberly Scott') to "atone" for taunting her, he mentions that they both went to "S.B. Butler" school as kids to remind her who he was. Writer Peter Filardi included this as a nod to his hometown in southeastern Connecticut, where there is a real "S.B. Butler" elementary school, near downtown Mystic, CT. more

Goofs:

Factual errors: During the Gross Anatomy dissection, the medical students are told to remove the ascending colon to the transverse colon, then to continue to the sigmoid colon until reaching the appendix. The appendix is located on the right side of the colon, at the beginning of the ascending colon. The above description would put it on the left side, near the end of the sigmoid (the last part of the colon before the rectum). more

Quotes:

Playground Kids: Three-six-nine! The goose drank wine! The monkey chewed tobacco on the street-car line! The line broke! The monkey got smoked! And they all went to Heaven in a little row-boat! Clap-clap! more

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Allemaal film: De gouden jaren (#1.3)" (2007) more

Soundtrack:

THE CLAPPING SONG more


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22 out of 31 people found the following comment useful.
When you come back, come back alone....., 17 August 2005
8/10
Author: TheatreX from Louisville, KY

This film has a decidedly weird setting, taking place in a school that's really old to begin with but it certainly doesn't look like any sterile medical school environment. Very Gothic and atmospheric. As for the film itself, well, OK, the premise is a bit far-fetched but hey, that's why we watch movies, isn't it? And it's less far-fetched than some of the garbage that's out these days, that's for sure. Medical students are experimenting with 'short term' death, as in allowing themselves to be briefly dead so they can experience what the afterlife is like. It's kind of nice, in some cases, till parts of it come back with the voyager and start meddling in their earthbound lives. I hadn't seen this film in years till I got it on DVD and I have to say that I'd forgotten just how good it was. And it struck me that Julia Roberts looks truly beautiful in this film, not like actresses of today that are supposedly gorgeous but are dressed and made-up like cheap hookers. Ahh, the good old days. Anyway, this is a great flick, perhaps not for fundamentalist Christians but many others may enjoy it. 8 out of 10 stars.

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