Flatliners Movie Review (1990) 15 8*

Flatliners Movie Review: Are you afraid to die? Nelson Wright (Kiefer Sutherland) isn’t. He’s an ambitious, charismatic medical student who persuades classmates Rachel (Julia Roberts) and David (Kevin Bacon) to take part in a reckless experiment. He wants to see if there is life after death. The idea is that they will kill themselves: temporarily shut down (“flatline”) their heartand brain functions to briefly experience clinical death. After Nelson survives the first experiment, the others flatline for increasingly longer intervals. But their horror begins when they realize that although they’ve come back alive, they haven’t come back alone.