Doctor Sleep (2019)

Doctor Sleep poster

Doctor Sleep (2019)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Negative

Viewer Rating
7.0

Overview

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".


Starring Cast


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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Center

Primary

The film primarily focuses on universal themes of personal trauma, addiction, redemption, and the fight against a supernatural evil, without explicitly promoting or critiquing specific political ideologies, leading to a neutral rating.

The movie demonstrates significant DEI through the casting of a young Black female in a central, powerful protagonist role, which represents an intentional choice for a key character. However, the narrative itself does not explicitly critique traditional identities or make strong DEI themes central to its plot.

Secondary

The film features a lesbian couple, Snakebite Andi and Silent Sarey, as members of the villainous True Knot cult. Their queer identity is incidental to their roles as antagonists who commit horrific acts. While not explicitly demonized for their sexuality, their exclusive portrayal as part of a child-murdering cult, without any positive counter-representation, results in a net negative impact due to the reinforcement of the 'villainous queer' trope.

Doctor Sleep does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on psychic abilities, trauma, and a battle against a vampiric cult, with no elements related to transgender identity.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

All major and legacy characters in Doctor Sleep maintain the same gender as established in Stephen King's novels or the prior film adaptation of The Shining. No character canonically established as one gender is portrayed as a different gender.

The film adapts Stephen King's novel and serves as a sequel to 'The Shining.' Key legacy characters from 'The Shining' maintain their established races. New characters introduced in 'Doctor Sleep' did not have their race explicitly specified or visually depicted in the source novel, thus their on-screen portrayals do not constitute a race swap under the given definition.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

7.0

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
7.3
The Movie Database logo
7.1

Critic Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes logo
7.8
Metacritic logo
5.9

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