FLATLINERS

GENRE:  Drama/ Horror/ Sci-Fi
MADE:  1990
CAST:  Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Julia Roberts, Oliver Platt, William Baldwin
DIRECTOR:  Joel Schumacher
WRITER:  Peter Filardi

PLOT:  A group of medical students experiment with death to find that as a result they have muddled the lines between life and death.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Primer, The Number 23, Mirrors

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MYSTIC RIVER

GENRE:  Crime/ Drama/ Mystery
MADE:  2003
CAST:  Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon
DIRECTOR:  Clint Eastwood
WRITER:  Brian Helgeland, Dennis Lehane

PLOT:  Three boys that are good friends from the same neighborhood grow up with a tragedy and must face yet another when a daughter is murdered.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Shawshank Redemption, Arlington Road, Sleepers

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A FEW GOOD MEN

GENRE:  Crime/ Drama/ Mystery
MADE:  1992
CAST:  Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak
DIRECTOR:  Rob Reiner
WRITER:  Aaron Sorkin

PLOT:  When a marine is murdered military attorney Kaffee takes the case and sets out for justice.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Primal Fear, Courage Under Fire, Fracture

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SLEEPERS

GENRE:  Crime/ Drama/ Thriller
MADE:  1996
CAST:  Robert De Niro, Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric
DIRECTOR:  Barry Levinson
WRITER:  Lorenzo Carcaterra, Barry Levinson

PLOT:  A group of young boys end up in a harsh detention center when a prank goes wrong killing an innocent man.  Their stay at the detention center leads to them being brutalized and abused, and 10 years later they seek their revenge.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Shawshank Redemption, American History X, Liberty Heights, The Count Of Monte Cristo

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