Flatliners is a 1990 American science fiction horror film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Michael Douglas and Rick Bieber, and written by Peter Filardi. It stars Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, and Oliver Platt. The film is about five medical students that attempt to find out what lies beyond death and they conduct clandestine experiments that produce near-death experiences.