Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Flatliners 1990


     Nelson, Rachel, David, William and Randy are medical students.  They begin to try to have near death experiences.  They each have their heart stopped and then they are revived.  Each one has a different experience but they start to deep memories of their childhood.  It’s something that they did or something that happened to them.  Their experiences begin to intensify and they begin to physically suffer from the memories. 
     Even thought this really didn’t happen, I thought it was rash and very dangerous to go to the brink of death and come back.  There seemed to be too many risks of not coming back.  When they started to experience problems, they didn’t talk about it or stop another person from doing the death procedure.  All their work to become doctors could’ve been shattered by these experiments.  I don’t think it was worth it!!  It was interested to see the actors when they were all young. 3* (This movie is OK) 
115 min, Drama directed by Joel Schumacher with Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, Kimberly Scott, Joshua Rudoy, Benjamin Mouton, Aeryk Egan, Kesha Reed, Hope Davis.

Note:  Imdb 6.6 out of 10, 48% critic 59% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 4.4* out of 5* with 301 reviews, Metacritic 55 out of 100 with 10 critics 7.8 out of 10 with 8 reviews.

Special Note:  Filmed in Chicago and Bensenville, Illinois; Cotati, Los Angeles and Burbank, California.  Also filmed on the campus of Loyola University in Chicago.  The students were hoping to see what accident victims report, a tunnel leading to a beautiful white light and friendly voices but this didn’t happen.  People attempting suicide report troubled, emotionally painful near-death experiences.  Michael Douglas was the producer of this film.  There is a remake of this film with Ellen Page and Diego Luna released in 2017.  The estimated budget was $26 million with a gross of $61 million in the US.  Kevin Bacon was 31, Kiefer Sutherland was 23, Julia Roberts 22, William Baldwin 27 and Oliver Platt was 30.

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