Shining, The Formats: DVD / VHS Released (US): May 23rd, 1980
Synopsis:
Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall), and their young son Danny (Danny Lloyd) move into the Overlook Hotel, where Jack has been hired as the winter caretaker. Cut off from civilization for months, Jack hopes to battle alcoholism and uncontrolled rage while writing. Danny's only companion during the long winter is an imaginary friend, Tony (Larry Durkin), who speaks to him and shows him visions of the murdered daughters of a previous caretaker. The hotel's head chef, Dick Halloran (Scatman Crothers), warns Danny before he leaves for the winter not to go into Room 237 and explains to Danny that he has the same psychic gift, the "shining". The long winter and the evil forces inside the hotel take its toll on Jack with dire consequences when Wendy discovers what Jack has really been working on rather than the novel he claims to have been writing.
I saw this when I was eleven, a little over two years ago. It became my favorite movie and it introduced me to Stephen King's books. I thought this was an awesome movie! I watch it over and over again, and it just never gets boring. It changed my view on hotels, also. :)
Posted By: Scarlett - 12/16/2009 - 11:56 PM EST
the first tv version was not true to the book, however the second was the best even though Jack was not in it.
Posted By: Carcar - 11/20/2009 - 9:47 AM EST
wow i thought i would want to read this just because my dad did but.......it looks pretty scary lol just kiddin i am going to read it.
Posted By: Michael - 09/24/2009 - 7:19 PM EST
BEST MOVIE BEST BOOK!!!
Posted By: Loading ... - 09/14/2009 - 6:18 AM EST
The movie version of The Shining is legendary, the book will live forever, the TV series however was durge, the whole idea of the Overlook Hotel was that it would be a place of complete total seclusion something so maddening that it would drive a man to insanity and murder, unfortunately it seems that Stephen King concentrated so much on relating the cinematic adaptation to the book, he seemed to leave out the scariness