Flatliners

1990 film by Joel Schumacher
Movie film Q514348
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Flatliners

Summary

Flatliners is a film[1]. Flatliners ranks in the top 2% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,488 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Flatliners's instance of is recorded as film[3].
  • Flatliners's director is recorded as Joel Schumacher[4].
  • Flatliners's screenwriter is recorded as Peter Filardi[5].
  • Flatliners's composer is recorded as James Newton Howard[6].
  • Flatliners's composer is recorded as David A. Stewart[7].
  • Flatliners's genre is recorded as science fiction film[8].
  • Flatliners's genre is recorded as thriller film[9].
  • Flatliners's genre is recorded as drama film[10].
  • Flatliners's genre is recorded as horror film[11].
  • Flatliners's genre is recorded as psychological horror fiction[12].
  • Flatliners's followed by is recorded as Flatliners[13].
  • Flatliners's cast member is recorded as Kiefer Sutherland[14].
  • Flatliners's cast member is recorded as Julia Roberts[15].
  • Flatliners's cast member is recorded as Kevin Bacon[16].
  • Flatliners's cast member is recorded as William Baldwin[17].
  • Flatliners's cast member is recorded as Oliver Platt[18].
  • Flatliners's cast member is recorded as Hope Davis[19].
  • Flatliners's cast member is recorded as Kimberly Scott[20].
  • Flatliners's cast member is recorded as Patricia Belcher[21].
  • Flatliners's cast member is recorded as Shauna O'Brien[22].
  • Flatliners's cast member is recorded as Julie Warner[23].
  • Flatliners's producer is recorded as Michael Douglas[24].
  • Flatliners's producer is recorded as Scott Rudin[25].
  • Flatliners's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no2018006404[26].
  • Flatliners's production company is recorded as Columbia Pictures[27].

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Authorship and Creation

Producers include Michael Douglas[24] and Scott Rudin[25]. Flatliners's director is recorded as Joel Schumacher[4]. Flatliners's screenwriter is recorded as Peter Filardi[5]. Cast members include Kiefer Sutherland[14], Julia Roberts[15], Kevin Bacon[16], William Baldwin[17], Oliver Platt[18], and Hope Davis[19].

Publication

Publication dates include +1990-01-01T00:00:00Z[28] and +1990-11-22T00:00:00Z[29]. Flatliners's original language of film or TV show is recorded as English[30]. Genres include science fiction film[8], thriller film[9], drama film[10], horror film[11], and psychological horror fiction[12].

Subject and Themes

Main subjects include near death experience[31], death[32], guilt[33], and atonement in Christianity[34].

Reception

Reviews include 48%[35], 5.6/10[36], and 55/100[37].

Adaptations and Inspiration

Flatliners's followed by is recorded as Flatliners[13].

Why It Matters

Flatliners ranks in the top 2% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,488 views/month).[2] Flatliners has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] Flatliners is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  27. [35] . Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [36] . Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  29. [37] . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] . wikidata.org.
  31. [29] . IMDb. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [31] . Flatliners. wikidata.org.
  33. [32] . Flatliners. wikidata.org.
  34. [33] . Flatliners. wikidata.org.
  35. [34] . Flatliners. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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