Flatliners

“Some lines shouldn't be crossed.”

Nelson Wright (Kiefer Sutherland), a medical student who can't stop wondering what lies beyond death, recruits four classmates to find out. Each one agrees to have their heart stopped for a short time and then be brought back, and the experiments run in secret. Joel Schumacher shot it on the Loyola University Chicago campus and gave the film a glossy, nervy surface that matches the students' rising fear.