Flatliners

This history of medical students playing God to cross the boundaries of life and death is a cautionary tale of man who wants to know too what is beyond death. Scenario clever Peter Filardi takes us to a place where death is a place where we are able to atone for our sins. Personified by Kevin Bacon, Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt, medical students are a mixed race where everyone has his own reason to go through the experience.
Although all the character arcs constructed around each atoning for what they did (or think they have) to others, the film works because the theme by noting that none of we must try to play God, not even the doctors (who are so often accused of that same) and that we must live in the present rather than being consumed by the errors that caused me in the past.
Director Joel Schumacher makes the film a strange he brought to The Lost Boys, which carry over into his time a TO KILL, 8mm, and the number 23. He made films in almost all genres, but it is the suspense drama that excels in and it shows here. Images by Jan de Bont (who would later direct the speed, the remake of obsession, and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life) and the original music of composer James Newton Howard film is an unsettling look in his eye of human nature.