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Doctor Sleep (2019) Revisited – Horror Movie Review
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The new episode of the Deconstructing video series looks at Mike Flanagan's adaptation of Stephen King's Doctor Sleep
Doctor Sleep
- Theatrical - Wide 2019-11-08
- Cast Rebecca Ferguson Ewan McGregor Zahn McClarnon Carl Lumbly Alex Essoe Chelsea Talmadge Kyliegh Curran
- Directed by Mike Flanagan
- Written by Akiva Goldsman Mike Flanagan
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On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless-mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True... See more Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.” Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival.
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Doctor Sleep (Movie Review)
Posted 7 years ago
Thirty-Six years after publishing the novel, author Stephen King returned to the world of THE SHINING with his follow-up novel, DOCTOR SLEEP, tracing the life of young Danny Torrance after the fateful events of that debut novel. But, while DOCTOR...
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Read Paul Shirey's Review HERE PLOT: Thirty nine years after surviving the Overlook Hotel, a now-adult Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) is a recovering alcoholic, living a low key life as an orderly in a small town. His newfound sobriety reawakens...
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Posted 7 years ago
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Mike Flanagan’s The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep scores composers
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Director Mike Flanagan's adaptation of Stephen King's novel DOCTOR SLEEP starring Ewan McGregor is heading our way in January 2020. Serving as a sequel to the King classic THE SHINING, this new film stars McGregor as an adult version of Danny Torrance. Recently we passed...
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Jocelin Donahue joins Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining
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After starring in GERALD'S GAME for director Mike Flanagan, it seems that Bruce Greenwood is set to reunite with the director for another Stephen King project. Deadline reports that Greenwood has joined the cast of DOCTOR SLEEP, a sequel to...
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