The Shining overview
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 1
...ranks in these movie lists:
- Artsy Horror Movies (#3)
- Best Haunted House Movies (#3)
Synopsis:
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" -- or, rather, a homicidal boy in Stanley Kubrick's eerie 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel. With wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and psychic son Danny (Danny Lloyd) in tow, frustrated writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as the winter caretaker at the opulently ominous, mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. Before the Overlook is vacated for the Torrances, the manager (Barry Nelson) informs Jack that a previous caretaker went crazy and slaughtered his family; Jack thinks it's no problem, but Danny's "shining" hints otherwise.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Stanley Kubrick
- Studio: Stanley Kubrick Productions, Producer's Circle, Warner Brothers
- Year: 1980
- Run Time: 146 minutes
- Country: UK, USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Horror
- Filmed in: Color
