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Doctor Sleep

  • 20192019
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  • 2h 32m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
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Ewan McGregor and Roger Dale Floyd in Doctor Sleep (2019)
Years following the events of "The Shining," a now-adult Dan Torrence meets a young girl with similar powers as his and tries to protect her from a cult known as The True Knot who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.
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Years following the events of The Shining (1980), a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers ... Read allYears following the events of The Shining (1980), a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.Years following the events of The Shining (1980), a now-adult Dan Torrance must protect a young girl with similar powers from a cult known as The True Knot, who prey on children with powers to remain immortal.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
197K
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POPULARITY
843
160
    • Mike Flanagan
    • Mike Flanagan(screenplay by)
    • Stephen King(based upon the novel by)
  • Stars
    • Ewan McGregor
    • Rebecca Ferguson
    • Kyliegh Curran
    • Mike Flanagan
    • Mike Flanagan(screenplay by)
    • Stephen King(based upon the novel by)
  • Stars
    • Ewan McGregor
    • Rebecca Ferguson
    • Kyliegh Curran
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    Rebecca Ferguson in Doctor Sleep (2019)
    Rebecca Ferguson and Kyliegh Curran in Doctor Sleep (2019)
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    Ewan McGregor in Doctor Sleep (2019)
    Ewan McGregor in Doctor Sleep (2019)
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    Ewan McGregor in Doctor Sleep (2019)

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    Ewan McGregor
    Ewan McGregor
    • Dan Torrance
    Rebecca Ferguson
    Rebecca Ferguson
    • Rose the Hat
    Kyliegh Curran
    Kyliegh Curran
    • Abra Stone
    Cliff Curtis
    Cliff Curtis
    • Billy Freeman
    Zahn McClarnon
    Zahn McClarnon
    • Crow Daddy
    Emily Alyn Lind
    Emily Alyn Lind
    • Snakebite Andi
    Selena Anduze
    Selena Anduze
    • Apron Annie
    Robert Longstreet
    Robert Longstreet
    • Barry the Chunk
    Carel Struycken
    Carel Struycken
    • Grampa Flick
    Katie Parker
    Katie Parker
    • Silent Sarey
    • (as Catherine Parker)
    Jamie Flanagan
    Jamie Flanagan
    • Diesel Doug
    • (as James Flanagan)
    Met Clark
    Met Clark
    • Short Eddie
    Zackary Momoh
    Zackary Momoh
    • David Stone
    Jocelin Donahue
    Jocelin Donahue
    • Lucy Stone
    Dakota Hickman
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    Carl Lumbly
    Carl Lumbly
    • Dick Hallorann
    Henry Thomas
    Henry Thomas
    • The Bartender
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    Bruce Greenwood
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      • Mike Flanagan(screenplay by)
      • Stephen King(based upon the novel by)
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    • Trivia
      Mike Flanagan painstakingly recreated the sets of the Overlook Hotel from blueprints acquired from Stanley Kubrick's estate.
    • Goofs
      When Dan returns to the room his family stayed in at the Overlook Hotel, he sees the bathroom door that Jack hacked open with the axe and puts his face in the axed-open panel, recreating the iconic "Here's Johnny" shot. However, in "The Shining", Jack was shown to have hacked both upper panels open to try and get to Wendy, not just the one.
    • Quotes

      Danny Torrance: Our beliefs don't make us better people. Our actions make us better people.

    • Crazy credits
      The 1992 version of the 1984 Warner Bros. Pictures shield logo is shown at the beginning with the 2018 WarnerMedia byline.
    • Alternate versions
      A directors cut was released on Blu Ray and Digital in February 2020
    • Connections
      Featured in The NFL on CBS: Week 8: Arizona Cardinals at New Orleans Saints (2019)
    • Soundtracks
      My Wild Irish Rose
      Written by Chauncey Olcott

      Performed by Rebecca Ferguson

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    Flanagan gets King right
    As far as Stephen King adaptations go, Mike Flanagan's DOCTOR SLEEP undoubtedly has to count among the small - but distinct - group of excellent ones. For a director to achieve this is a rare feat - as any Stephen King fan can sadly attest to after dozens of mediocre to downright terrible adaptations over the last four decades - and what's even more impressive is that it marks the second time Flanagan managed to pull this off, since he already knocked it out of the park with his Netflix adaptation of King's previously considered to be unfilmable novel GERALD'S GAME.

    Now the reason why those two films work so well is actually quite simple: like Frank Darabont and Rob Reiner before him, Flanagan gets that the most intriguing aspect of King's stories is not the horror. He's the rare director adapting a story by the writer who gets that it's not the supernatural, not the gory thrills or creeping chills that make those books so immersive and so well loved (though of course those are elements that we King fans also greatly enjoy): it's the meticulous worldbuilding and the deeply human characters.

    King's novels - and Dr. Sleep is no exception - are so immersive because they're usually less about the horror itself and much more about the journeys he sets his characters on in confronting that horror, the world they inhabit and the people they meet along the way - and the strong bonds and friendships they forge. So in order for the adaptations to work on screen, it's crucial to retain the warmth and the humanity the writer infuses his protagonists with. The director's cut of DOCTOR SLEEP (which is the only cut I've seen), perfectly captures that aspect of King's writing. It has that special "King tone" - for lack of a better word - which so rarely survives the Hollywood treatment of his works.

    My only - minor - gripe is that Flanagan focused his considerable talent on what I consider to be a somewhat mediocre book. If latter-day King is what he had to choose from, I wish he had picked BAG OF BONES or DUMA KEY instead, as his storytelling instincts would have been perfectly suited for both of those (admittedly also flawed) novels. There's some great stuff in there that could make for fantastic, haunting, beautifully Gothic genre films if a writer/director with Flanagan's old-school approach to storytelling and deeply humanist sensibilities were to tackle it.

    But never mind my nitpicking; DOCTOR SLEEP is a treat for King fans as well as genre fans in general, and it's a shame it wasn't a bigger success at the box office. The movie is beautifully photographed, the cast - especially Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran and Zahn McClarnon - are wonderful, and the deliberate pacing works perfectly for the story. So let's give it up for Mike Flanagan (who's apparently already busy adapting King's Lovecraftian novel REVIVAL); in the absence of Rob Reiner and Frank Darabont, he's perhaps the greatest hope for us King fans.
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    • Is this the sequel to Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining"?
    • Do I need to watch "The Shining" before watching "Doctor Sleep" to understand this movie?
    • Is this movie connected to the adaptation of "The shining" from 1980 or the one from 1997 ?

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      • November 8, 2019 (United States)
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      • Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood, Oregon, USA
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    • 2 hours 32 minutes
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