flash·back / ˈflashˌbak/ • n. a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story: in a series of flashbacks, we follow the pair through their teenage years. ∎  a sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past, typically as the result of psychological trauma or taking LSD.

Flashback ??? 1989 (R)

FBI agent Sutherland's assignment sounds easy: escort aging 1960s radical Hopper to prison. But Hopper is cunning and decides not to go without a fight. He uses his brain to outwit the young Sutherland and to turn him against himself. Good moments between the two leads and with Kane, as a woman who never left the '60s behind. 108m/C VHS . Dennis Hopper, Kiefer Sutherland, Carol Kane, Cliff DeYoung, Paul Dooley, Michael McKean, Richard Masur; D: Franco Amurri; M: Barry Goldberg.

flashback (flash-bak) n.
1. vivid involuntary reliving of the perceptual abnormalities experienced during a previous episode of drug intoxication (most commonly with LSD), including hallucinations and derealization.

2. the reliving of a traumatic experience that occurs as a symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder.