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Jacob's Ladder
Why this pick
Matches Flatliners’ feverish blend of mortality, guilt and destabilized reality, using ominous visions and a subjective psychological descent rather than straightforward scares.
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MOVIE1990 1h 55m USA
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
For Flatliners’ dreamlike visual horror and invasive journeys into troubled minds, this offers a stylized psychological thriller where empathy and terror coexist.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Nelson Wright, a medical student, walks onto a beach one day and proclaims “today is a good day to die”. He later convinces four of his medical school classmates—Joe Hurley, David Labraccio, Randy Steckle, and Rachel Manus—to help him discover what lies beyond death. Nelson flatlines for one minute before his classmates resuscitate him. While "dead", he experiences a sort of afterlife. He sees a vision of a boy he bullied as a child, Billy Mahoney. He merely tells his friends that he cannot describe what he saw, but something is there. The others follow Nelson's daring feat.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kiefer Sutherland
Nelson
Julia Roberts
Rachel Mannus
Kevin Bacon
David Labraccio
William Baldwin
Joe Hurley
Oliver Platt
Randy Steckle
Beth Grant
Housewife
Kimberly Scott
Winnie Hicks
Hope Davis
Anne Coldren