Doctor Sleep (2019)

Henry Thomas: The Bartender

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• Danny Torrance : Man takes a drink. A drink takes the drink. And then the drink takes a man. Isn't it so, Dad?

  The Bartender : Medicine. Medicine is what it is. Bona fide cure-all. The mind is a blackboard, and this is the eraser.

• The Bartender : [Jack takes a drink]  A man tries. He provides. But is surrounded by mouths that eat and scream and cry and nag. So he asks for one thing, just one thing for him, to warm him up, to take the sting out of those days and the mouths eating and eating and eating everything he makes, everything he has. A family. A wife, a kid. Those mouths eat time. They eat your days on Earth.

  [pours another drink] 

  The Bartender : Just gobble them up. It's enough to make a man *sick*. And this

  [offers Dan the glass of whiskey] 

  The Bartender : ... is the medicine. So tell me, pup... are you going to take your medicine?

  Dan Torrance : [tearfully]  ... I'm not!

  [Jack knocks the glass away, smashing it] 

• The Bartender : [Dan tries to talk about Wendy's death but Jack ignores this and offers him a drink]  Maybe something warm... to push away such unpleasantries.

  Dan Torrance : Don't you want to hear about it? She was your wife!

  The Bartender : I think you've mistaken me for someone else. I'm just the bartender.

  Dan Torrance : Oh, yeah. Just Lloyd the bartender... pouring joy at the Overlook Hotel.

  The Bartender : I'll pour whatever you like, mister Torrance.

  Dan Torrance : Oh, Dad... this drink will cost an awful lot!

  The Bartender : Your money is no good here. Orders from the House.

  Dan Torrance : It will cost more than money. It will cost me eight years... eight behind me and who knows how many in front of me.

• The Bartender : I apologize mister Torrance. I don't know where everyone is, but it will pick up.

  Dan Torrance : Oh, I know where they are. And you're right... it will pick up.

• The Bartender : If you don't mind my saying Mr Torrance, you seem... put upon.

  Dan Torrance : Put upon?

  The Bartender : Ain't that the way? Man just living his life, trying to do his work, is put upon... pulled into other people's problems. I see it all the time, if you don't mind my saying.