Movie Review: Doctor Sleep (2019)

dir. Mike Flanagan

Matthew Golden
Nov 4 · 6 min read

Stephen King once wrote “Films, even the best of them, freeze fiction — anyone who has ever seen One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and then reads Ken Kesey’s novel will find it hard or impossible not to see Jack Nicholson’s face on Randle Patrick McMurphy.” Ironically, it’s Jack Nicholson’s face on the character of Jack Torrance that rankled King so greatly that upon writing…

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