History Film / Flatliners

* DecoyProtagonist: Courtney, Ellen Page's character, receives the most focus in the trailers for the movie. [[spoiler:She is the only character to die, and dies about halfway through the plot. Marlo is ultimately the one who is the focus of the climax.]]

A remake was released in September 2017, starring Creator/EllenPage.

A sequel was released in September 2017, starring Creator/EllenPage with Kiefer Sutherland reprising his role.

* MagicalDefibrillator: In RealLife, it is not possible to defibrillate someone who is flatlined back to life, let alone someone who has been clinically dead for twelve minutes. We won't talk about brain damage, either.

A sequel, with Kiefer Sutherland reprising his role, is in the works. It is starring Creator/EllenPage.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Facing the possibility of being tormented by Billy for the rest of his days without reprieve, Nelson decides to kill himself.]]

%%* TheCasanova: Joe

* CasualDangerDialogue: When the guys are rushing to stop [[spoiler: Nelson from trying to commit suicide]] Steckle remarks how his worst sin was robbing a sandwich from his babysitter.

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Billy Mahoney]]

* FlatlinePlotline: ...yeah. The best-known, if not the first, such example.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before Rachel goes through her near death experience, she sees a picture of her father in her room. During her near death experience she remembers her father's suicide.

%%* {{Meganekko}}: Rachel.

%%* ProfessorGuineaPig

A sequel, with Kiefer Sutherland reprising his role, is in the works.

* NippleAndDimed: Averted, surprisingly. ''Film/TheAbyss'' did this with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and it was PG-13. ''Flatliners'' is already rated R, and even has a sex scene in it! But Julia Roberts has a bra on during her resuscitation scene.

* MirrorScare: Rachel (Julia Roberts) looks in a mirror and sees the ghost of her dead father on the room behind her.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Nelson and David when they were younger

* TrashcanBonfire: Steckle and Hurley are warming themselves near a burning barrel before being picked up by David Labraccio.

* TrashcanBonfire: Steckle and Hurley warm their hands over a burning barrel before being picked up by David Labraccio.

* PositiveDiscrimination: While all the men in the group have to deal with the various people they hurt in their lives, the one female in the group's only sin is [[spoiler:having a father who committed suicide when she was a child, through no fault of her own]].
** Though in the original script, her sin was an affair with a college professor where she villainized him after being caught and claimed sexual abuse. The storyline was changed so as not to reflect badly on the reputation of "nice girl" actress Julia Roberts.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Kiefer Sutherland and Julia Roberts.

* TheCasanova: Joe

* DeadpanSnarker: Steckle.

* {{Meganekko}}: Rachel.

* NippleAndDimed: Averted, surprisingly. ''TheAbyss'' did this with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and it was PG-13. ''Flatliners'' is already rated R, and even has a sex scene in it! But Julia Roberts has a bra on during her resuscitation scene.

* ProfessorGuineaPig

* ShipTease: Rachel and Nelson.

* SuicideIsPainless

* ShoutOut: Kiefer Sutherland being pursued by a creepy figure with a red hood might be a reference to a [[DontLookNow certain movie]] featuring [[Creator/DonaldSutherland his dad]].

''Flatliners'' is a 1990 movie directed by Creator/JoelSchumacher and starring Creator/KieferSutherland, Creator/JuliaRoberts, Creator/KevinBacon, Creator/WilliamBaldwin and Oliver Platt as medical students experimenting with near-death experiences. In the course of their experiments, they accidentally bring back the ghosts of their past, in the form of vengeful entities that torment them, forcing them to confront their past mistakes and try to figure out a way to send them back where they belong.

''Flatliners'' is a 1990 movie directed by Creator/JoelSchumacher and starring Kiefer Sutherland, Creator/JuliaRoberts, Creator/KevinBacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt as medical students experimenting with near-death experiences. In the course of their experiments, they accidentally bring back the ghosts of their past, in the form of vengeful entities that torment them, forcing them to confront their past mistakes and try to figure out a way to send them back where they belong.

* ShoutOut: KieferSutherland being pursued by a creepy figure with a red hood might be a reference to a [[DontLookNow certain movie]] featuring [[DonaldSutherland his dad]].

''Flatliners'' is a 1990 movie starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt as medical students experimenting with near-death experiences. In the course of their experiments, they accidentally bring back the ghosts of their past, in the form of vengeful entities that torment them, forcing them to confront their past mistakes and try to figure out a way to send them back where they belong.

* RomanceOnTheSet: Keifer Sutherland and Julia Roberts.

* {{Casanova}}: Joe