flat spoiler five med student and nelson ( kiefer sutherland ) and david labraccio ( kevin bacon ) and rachel mannus ( julia robert ) and joe hurley ( william baldwin ) and randy steckle ( oliver platt ) decide to attempt an experiment while die for exactly 5 minute ( it be the maximum amount of time somebody can do this before be risk of brain damage ) . almost everyone do this experiment and randy be the lone exception and but they begin to have unwelcome visitor while david see a little black girl shout crude insult to him and joe see all the woman he have have sex with ( and which he videotape ) ask him why from the tv screen and rachel relive her father suicide and nelson face a little boy with murderous intention . why be they here . and how will they get rid of them . this tense and interesting movie and set in an hallucinated city and into a gothic med school and be quite the experience and both for the story and the character and play by then bud star such a kiefer sutherland and julia robert and oliver platt and kevin bacon and william baldwin . the director be joel schumacher and who have already work with sutherland in lose boy and and this second cooperation be even good than the first . a must for psychological thriller horror bud and metaphor lover ( this story be about forgiveness and righting of past wrong ) and this be one of the minor classic from the 80 that get respect even today and like the mention by rebecca gayheart in scream 2 or the tru call episode which use the movie premise . flatliners represent positive .