Film Review – Flatliners

Flatliners stars Julia Roberts, a teenage Jessica Alba and an even younger Natalie Portman. The three of them provide cavity wall insulation for yuppie flats in New York.

Julia Roberts is the business owner primarily, but she also functions as a surrogate mother for Natalie Portman, and to a degree, Jessica Alba. We follow their business through the dark days of the Eighties where fuel efficiency and caring for the environment are foreign concepts. It is in these days that the relationships between the three are fired and set.

As time passes, business picks up. By the end of the film we see that Jessica Alba and Natalie Portman are travelling around with their own bands of insulation technicians. The film tells us that while things may change there are always certain constants. There will always be trios of girls available to insulate your condominium.