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GenreDrama, Fantasy & Horror
RatedR
Runtime2 hr 32 mins
ReleasedNovember 8, 2019
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorMike Flanagan
StarringEwan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran
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Doctor Sleep (2019)
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| Doctor Sleep's Details | |
| Genre | Drama, Fantasy & Horror |
| Rated | R |
| Released | 10/21/2019 (Regency Village Theater); 11/08/2019 (United States) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 2 hr 32 mins |
| Budget | $45–55M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Based On | Doctor Sleep by Stephen King |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Doctor Sleep's Interests | |
| General | The Overlook Hotel, hedge mazes, hospice night shifts, psychic lockboxes, one very ominous hat. |
| Music | The Newton Brothers, with echoes of the classic The Shining score. |
| Movies | The Shining (1980). The Torrance family's very bad winter. |
| Television | The Haunting of Hill House. Mike Flanagan, another family that cannot shake a house. |
| Heroes | Dick Hallorann (Carl Lumbly). Taught little Danny how to lock the ghosts away. |
| Doctor Sleep's Crew | |
| Director | Mike Flanagan |
| Writers | Mike Flanagan |
| Producers | Trevor Macy, Jon Berg |
| Cinematography | Michael Fimognari |
| Music | The Newton Brothers |
| Edited By | Mike Flanagan |
| Production | Warner Bros. Pictures, Intrepid Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment |
| Distributed By | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Late in its 152 minutes, Doctor Sleep packs up its own story and drives to the Overlook Hotel for a fan tribute, and that’s where it stalls. Lookalike actors stand in for famous faces, and it feels more like a reunion photo than a nightmare. Before that, it’s a moody road thriller about psychic kids and the people who hunt them, slow to get its pieces on the board. Ewan McGregor is excellent as grown-up Danny, a gentle, haunted man who finally found a use for his gift at a hospice. Kyliegh Curran’s Abra is so confident you almost pity the villains. Rebecca Ferguson’s Rose the Hat is the star, a smiling, top-hatted cult leader with a voice like warm honey and a very cold heart. It made $72.4 million worldwide on a reported $45 to $55 million. A 6.9 because the new story is strong and the nostalgia trip is a detour. $42.51 says the next time a cat chooses your lap out of everyone in the room, you get a little nervous about why.
What works: Rebecca Ferguson makes Rose the Hat a magnetic villain, and Ewan McGregor gives Danny a quiet, earned decency.
What doesn’t: At 152 minutes it’s slow to get going, and the Overlook finale leans on nostalgia instead of new scares.
Who it’s for: Fans of The Shining who want to know what happened to Danny, and horror viewers who like a slow, character-driven burn.
Spoilers
Danny lures Rose to the abandoned Overlook and turns the hotel’s old ghosts loose on her. He stays behind to set off the boiler and goes down with the hotel, then returns as a gentle ghost to check on Abra.
Decades after the Overlook Hotel, Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor) is a grown man still haunted by what happened there. He spent years drinking to quiet his psychic gift, the shining, before getting sober in a small New Hampshire town, where he works at a hospice and gently comforts patients near the end. Then a young girl named Abra Stone (Kyliegh Curran), whose shine is even stronger than his, reaches out to him. Abra has sensed something terrible: a group called the True Knot, led by Rose the Hat (Rebecca Ferguson), hunts people like them. Mike Flanagan directs. One hundred fifty-two minutes, sleep with the light on.
Anyone with a little shine. Keep it to yourself.
| Ewan McGregor | Dan Torrance |
| Rebecca Ferguson | Rose the Hat |
| Kyliegh Curran | Abra Stone |
| Carl Lumbly | Dick Hallorann |
| Zahn McClarnon | Crow Daddy |
| Emily Alyn Lind | Snakebite Andi |
| Bruce Greenwood | Dr. John Dalton |
| Jocelin Donahue | Lucy Stone |
| Cliff Curtis | Billy Freeman |
| Robert Longstreet | Barry the Chink |
| Carel Struycken | Grandpa Flick |
| Alex Essoe | Wendy Torrance |
| Zackary Momoh | Dave Stone |
| Jacob Tremblay | Bradley Trevor |
| Henry Thomas | The Bartender |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 18 October 2026 DataBot +40 Numbers refreshed: IMDb users 7.3 / 10 (249,592 votes) → 7.3 / 10 (249,716 votes).
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 17 October 2026 DataBot +480 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $72.4M; Domestic box office $31.6M; Opening weekend $14.1M; Profit / loss (est.) -$38.8M; Rotten Tomatoes 78%; CinemaScore B+; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 78% (341 reviews); Metacritic 59 / 100; CinemaScore B+; IMDb users 7.3 / 10 (249,592 votes); movie.guru score 6.6.
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