Doctor Sleep

 

Doctor Sleep 2019

• Director: Mike Flanagan
• Based on the novel by Stephen King.
• Cast: Ewan MacGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran, Cliff Curtis, Zahn McClarnan, Emily Alyn Lind
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Ewan MacGregor – Trainspotting 2, American Pastoral, Our Kind of Traitor, Star Wars etc, Mortdecai, August Osage County, Jack the Giant Slayer, The Impossible, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Perfect Sense, The Ghost Writer, The Island, Moulin Rouge, Big Fish, Young Adam, Little Voice, Velvet Goldmine, A Life Less Ordinary, Brassed Off, Trainspotting, Shallow Grave
• Rebecca Ferguson – The Greatest Showman, Life, The Girl on the Train
• Kyliegh Curran – Nothing yet but keep an eye open. She’s great!
• Cliff Curtis – Die Hard 4, Sunshine, The Fountain, Whale Rider, Bringing Out the Dead, Once Were Warriors, The Piano
• Zahn McClarnan – Skins
• Why? Ewan MacGregor
• Seen: 9 January 2021.      

       Twenty years or so after the events of The Shining (which, by the way, did not impress me), the traumatised boy Danny has grown up to become an alcoholic and totally messed up Ewan MacGregor. There’s also the beautiful and evil leader of the True Knot, Rose (Ferguson), her companions Snakebite Andi (Lind) and Crow (McClarnan), young teen-ager Abra (Curran) who has enormous powers, and a very kind and supportive man called Billy (Curtis) who befriends Danny.

       It all ties together and is much better than The Shining. Mostly thanks to the excellent cast.

  4* of 5