Doctor Sleep (feature film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Doctor Sleep |
| Original title | Doctor Sleep |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nick Willing |
| script |
Nick Willing , William Brookfield |
| production | Michele Camarda |
| music | Simon Boswell |
| camera | Peter Sova |
| cut | Niven Howie |
| occupation | |
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Doctor Sleep (alternate title: Blood Murder - The Last Child , Close Your Eyes , Hypnotic ) is a British thriller from 2002 . Directed by Nick Willing , who, together with William Brookfield, also wrote the script based on the novel by Madison Smartt Bell .
action
Michael Strother was a doctor in the USA . He took a little boy's fear of water away. But the boy could no longer properly assess the danger and drowned. Michael moved to England with his pregnant wife Clara and their young daughter Martha . There he works as a therapist and uses hypnosis . He treats the policewoman Janet Losey who wants to quit smoking. During the treatment he has a vision in which he sees a girl. After he asks Losey about it, she explains that the girl is Heather. She was kidnapped by a serial killer but managed to escape. She was the first victim who survived, but since then the girl has stopped talking and is apathetic . She and her mother are under police protection. Losey asks Strother for help and he hypnotizes Heather.
Losey and Strother learn about Francis Paladins and his theories of rebirth. The writer Lebourg believes in his theories. You can find references to an architect who was a fan of Paladins and designed churches in London. They ask a specialist for help, but he is killed shortly afterwards. Strother feels persecuted during the investigation and his wife demands that he only go about his normal job and take care of Martha. The policeman who was supposed to protect Heather is murdered and the girl is kidnapped. Losey is then released.
Strother moves into a hotel with his family to protect them. Although his wife threatens to leave him, he follows up on a lead. Strother also falls into the hands of the serial killer, who tortures him to find out what he knows. Then he sticks an infusion needle into Strother's vein to collect his blood. Strother notices Heather who is trapped, he hypnotizes her and she can break free and help him. Lebourg, who carries the soul of Paladine, wants to leave her aging body and use Heather as a cover for the soul. Losey notices that Strother is in danger and comes to his aid. She can save Strother and then Heather too.
The film ends with Strother and Heather being healthy and meeting. Strother notices a tic in Heather that Lebourg and Paladins also had.
Reviews
Michael Rechtshaffen wrote in The Hollywood Reporter magazine that the “atmospheric psychological thriller” had a convincing effect thanks to the “tight, stylized” direction and the “clever” cast.
Cinema magazine wrote that the "supernatural psychological thriller" had "a few waking moments" and was "somewhere between" Scanners "and" The Silence of the Lambs "" .
The lexicon of international film sees the film as having an "inherent comic potential", which it does not exploit because it wants to be too much of a thriller.
Awards
Nick Willing won the Sweden Fantastic Film Festival's Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver in 2002 ; In 2003 he was nominated for the International Fantasy Film Award of the Fantasporto Festival and for the Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Gold of the Luxembourg Festival Cinénygma . In 2004, Willing received an award as a director at the Valenciennes International Festival of Action and Adventure Films . Goran Višnjić, Nick Willing and Simon Boswell won awards at the 2004 Paris Film Festival .
backgrounds
The film was shot in London . Its production amounted to an estimated 10 million US dollars . The film grossed around 39,000 US dollars in selected cinemas in the USA. In some countries like the Netherlands , Russia and Italy it was released directly on DVD.
Web links
- Doctor Sleep in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Doctor Sleep at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Doctor Sleep at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quotation from uk.rottentomatoes.com ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 21, 2008
- ^ Cinema , accessed August 21, 2008
- ^ Doctor Sleep. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 28, 2017 .
- ^ Filming locations for Doctor Sleep , accessed August 21, 2008
- ^ Box office / business for Doctor Sleep , accessed August 21, 2008
- ↑ Release dates for Doctor Sleep , accessed August 21, 2008
