F5833 FLATLINERS (USA, 1990) (Other titles: Egyenesen at; Experience interdite; Linea mortale)

Credits: director, Joel Schumacher ; writer, Peter Filardi. Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin. Summary: Horror film set in the contemporary U.S. An ambitious, charismatic medical student (Sutherland) persuades two classmates (Roberts and Bacon) to take part in an experiment to determine if there is life after death. When the Julia Roberts character crosses over to the other side, she is greeted as a little girl by images of her father returning home from Vietnam. She sees what she has suppressed since childhood: her father mainlining dope and killing himself with a .45 pistol.

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