Doctor Sleep

  • Rated R
  • 2hr 31m
  •  (1,074)
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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Mike Flanagan

Producer:

Jon Berg, Akiva Goldsman, Stephen King

Writer:

Stephen King, Mike Flanagan

Release Date:

Nov 8, 2019

Runtime:

2hr 31m

Synopsis

Still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance has fought to find some semblance of peace. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra, a courageous teenager with her own powerful extrasensory gift, known as the "shine." Instinctively recognizing that Dan shares her power, Abra has sought him out, desperate for his help against the merciless Rose the Hat and her followers, The True Knot, who feed off the shine of innocents in their quest for immortality.

Cast

  • Ewan McGregor
  • Rebecca Ferguson
  • Kyliegh Curran
  • Cliff Curtis
  • Zahn McClarnon
  • Emily Alyn Lind
  • Selena Anduze
  • Robert Longstreet
  • Carel Struycken
  • Catherine Parker

Did You Know?

Trivia

  • John Cusack had expressed interest in playing adult Danny Torrence. Cusack previously starred in 1408, another adaptation of a Stephen King story involving a haunted hotel.
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Goofs

  • When Dan returns to the room his family stayed in at the Overlook, he sees the bathroom door Jack hacked open with the axe and puts his face in the axed open panel, reenacting the iconic "Here's Johnny" shot. However, in The Shining, Jack hacked both upper panels of the door to try and get to Wendy, not just the one.
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Quotes

    • Abra Stone: You're magic. Like me
    • Danny Torrance: You need to listen to me. The world's a hungry place. A dark place. I've only met two or three people like us. They died. When I was a kid, I bumped into these things. I don't know about magic. I, I always called it "the shining."
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#intense
#mustsee
#creepy
#greatcast
#heartpounding
#terrifying
#leavekidsathome
#surprising

#19 will forever be etched into my head. That scene left me shaking with tears pouring down my face.. Poor baseball boy...

7 of 7 helpful votes
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#greatcast
#clever
#great
#heartpounding
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another film well delivered and great ending! go and watch this everyone

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Metacritic

59
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Based on 46 Critics
6.6

USER SCORE (247)

Generally favorable reviews based on 247 Reviews
70
Oct 30, 2019

Flanagan brings enough smarts and soul to the flawed, fascinating Doctor Sleep that he manages to escape The Shining’s shadow mostly unscathed.

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Metacritic review by Tim Grierson
Tim Grierson
Screen International
70
Oct 30, 2019

Like HBO’s new Watchmen series, Flanagan’s Doctor Sleep doesn’t simply rehash its source material, and instead uses its characters, setting, and themes in smart and novel ways.

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Metacritic review by Matt Singer
Matt Singer
ScreenCrush
60
Oct 30, 2019

It doesn’t have Jack Nicholson, Stanley Kubrick or even much of the Overlook Hotel, but Rebecca Ferguson and other good actors provide some shine of their own in Doctor Sleep, a drawn-out and seldom pulse-quickening follow-up to The Shining that still has enough going on to forestall any audience slumber.

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Metacritic review by Todd McCarthy
Todd McCarthy
The Hollywood Reporter
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