Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022) review

Retired businessman Mr. Harrigan (Donald Sutherland) - who has a long history of being a ruthless tyrant in his field - asks motherless Craig (Colin O'Brien as a preteen, Jaeden Martell as a high schooler) to come over to his mansion and read to him from the classics (Dickens, Sinclair, Dostoyevsky etc.) once a week and sends him lottery tickets as gifts - when Craig wins money on one of them, he buys the older gentleman a brand new iPhone, which becomes a kind of 'magical communication devise' between them after Mr. H. passes away.  It's based on a novella by Stephen King, but Hancock (who also wrote the adaptation) doesn't exactly help things out: it takes quite a while for anything interesting to happen (oh look: another bully!) ... and then it doesn't even bother to attempt to be semi-spooky (although Steve Jobs would have gotten a kick out of the idea that the device would communicate with the Great Beyond).  Sutherland's character makes a few relevant comments about the dangers of modern technology, but there isn't much of a takeaway other than 'never wish harm onto others regardless of what they've done' (which goes without saying).