Word: platts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group of "flatliners" is rounded out by Joe Hurley (William Baldwin) and Randy Steckle (Oliver Platt), who comprise the body of the film's unlikely, supposedly promising med school students. Hurley spends too much time having sex with women and making illicit films of the act to study medicine, let alone cure patients, and Steckle, who constantly records conversations and events, longs to be a writer. Their motives for attending med school are unclear, and apart from the standard motives of fame and fortune, the audience is at a loss to explain their role in the experiments...
Baldwin delivers a strong performance, but his role as a foil is unfortunately limiting. Platt is vaguely amusing, and blessed with the most of film's comic lines. "I did not come to medical school to kill my classmates," he deadpans at one point, "no matter how deranged they might...