Blyss's Movie Review for:

Main Cast of Characters:

Kiefer Sutherland...........Nelson Wright

Kevin Bacon.........David Labraccio

William Baldwin...........Joe Hurley

Oliver Platt.........Randal Steckle

Kimberly Scott..........Winnie Hicks

Julia Roberts...............Rachel Mannus

1989. Rated: PG-13. Genre: Comedy

"Today is a good day to die."

At least that is what a gang of medical students thought everyday until it happened to them. Nelson Wright, Joe Hurley, Rachel Mannus, Randal Steckle, and David Labraccio all participate in an unauthorized study masterminded by Nelson. They all want to know if there is something out there beyond death. Nelson has a hard time getting all of them to come but they finally do, including Labraccio who had just been suspended indefinitely for doing a surgery on someone who was life or death and he was not a licensed doctor. The first one to go is Nelson. He flies over a garden and sees children playing in a field. He starts to experience something from his childhood and then they bring him back to life. Joe is next to go after fighting with Rachel to go. It seems that after they die and come back, the evil things they have done in the past seem to haunt them and will not let them live their lives. Some of the manifestations they start seeing seem physical. Will they live another day? Or be punished by their sins for their past?

This is one of my absolute all time favorite movies! It has three of my favorite actors in it: Bacon, Sutherland, and Baldwin! I am not a big fan of Julia Roberts but she did a good job in this film. The whole concept of there being a life after death is something that I truly believe in. But after coming back, these bad things they have done in their past haunt them? Is it guilt? Or is it merely a side effect? Is there brain playing tricks on them? Some of them deserved what they were getting like Hurley. He deserved to be haunted by his misdeeds because of what he had done to all of those people. But others committed their crimes when they were just kids, before they knew any better. I have to wonder why they were punished for things they did as children. The only really good outcome for any of these characters was David Labraccio. He was able to make right the wrong he had committed so long ago. Forgiveness...there's a word many people need to consider of when they think about their pasts.

Overall, it was a thrilling suspenseful movie with lots of twists which made it just that more exciting! "Flatliners" is a classic. If you haven't seen it, shame on you!

I rate this film: 10

Blyss