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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Questionable for Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1990 DVD Release: 01/20/1998 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, Korean, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 54 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Total Copies: 4 Genres: Science Fiction, Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Supernatural Thriller See Also: Flatliners [Blu-ray]

Despite its occasional lapses into silly self-consciousness, Flatliners is one of the most intriguing and well-constructed supernatural thrillers of the 1990s. A group of brilliant medical students decide to literally play with life and death. They put themselves in suspended animation, electronically inducing a near-deathlike state and then pulling out of it at the last possible moment. Things get hairy when one of the students (Kiefer Sutherland) becomes obsessed with the notion of really dying, the better to experience the Afterlife before being revived--if he can be revived. In her first dramatic starring role (playing a sensitive young lady on a misguided guilt trip), Julia Roberts is very, very good--completely bereft of movie-star mannerisms. Audiences flocked to see Flatliners back in 1990 due to the highly publicized off-screen romance between Roberts and Sutherland. Oh, yes: Kevin Bacon and William Baldwin are in the picture, too. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Kiefer Sutherland - Nelson Wright
Julia Roberts - Rachel Mannus
Kevin Bacon - David Labraccio
William Baldwin - Joe Hurley
Oliver Platt - Randy Steckle

Joel Schumacher's tale of doctors investigated the possibility of an afterlife, Flatliners, comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1. English, Spanish, and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. A second English soundtrack has been recorded in Dolby Digital Stereo. Spanish and Korean subtitles are accessible, and the English Surround soundtrack is closed-captioned. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence. This is a technically solid DVD from Columbia/TriStar that delivers good sound and picture quality, but little else. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide