Taglines: The World will Shine Again.
Doctor Sleep Movie Storyline. 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 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.
Doctor Sleep is an upcoming American horror film based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Stephen King, which is a sequel to King’s 1977 novel The Shining. The film, set several decades after the events of The Shining, combines elements of the 1977 novel and its 1980 film adaptation of the same name directed by Stanley Kubrick. Doctor Sleep is written, directed, and edited by Mike Flanagan.
It stars Ewan McGregor as Dan Torrance, a man with psychic powers who struggles with childhood trauma. The film also stars Rebecca Ferguson and Kyliegh Curran in her feature film debut. Carl Lumbly, Zahn McClarnon, Emily Alyn Lind, Bruce Greenwood, Jocelin Donahue, Alex Essoe, and Cliff Curtis also feature in supporting roles.
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Directed by: Mike Flanagan
Starring: Rebecca Ferguson, Ewan McGregor, Jacob Tremblay, Cliff Curtis, Bruce Greenwood, Emily Alyn Lind, Carel Struycken, Chelsea Talmadge, Violet McGraw, Catherine Parker, Carl Lumbly
Screenplay by: Mike Flanagan
Production Design by: Maher Ahmad, Patricio M. Farrell
Cinematography by: Michael Fimognari
Film Editing by: Mike Flanagan
Costume Design by: Terry Anderson
Set Decoration by: Gene Serdena
Art Direction by: Richie Bearden, Austin Gorg, Justin O’Neal Miller
Music by: The Newton Brothers
MPAA Rating: R for disturbing and violent content, some bloody images, language, nudity and drug use.
Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures
Release Date: October 30, 2019 (Worldwide), November 8, 2019 (United States)
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