The Shining

Also Known As: Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining'

Company: Warner Bros. / Hawk Films / Peregrine

Aspect Ratio: 1.37 : 1

Budget: $19,000,000

Full Cast: Jack Nicholson / Shelley Duvall / Danny Lloyd / Scatman Crothers / Barry Nelson / Philip Stone / Joe Turkel / Anne Jackson / Tony Burton / Lia Beldam / Billie Gibson / Barry Dennen / David Baxt / Manning Redwood / Lisa Burns / Louise Burns / Robin Pappas / Alison Coleridge / Burnell Tucker / Jana Shelden / Kate Phelps / Norman Gay / Vivian Kubrick / Bertha Lynn / Derek Lyons / Glenn Rinker

Cast and Character: Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance / Shelley Duvall as Wendy Torrance / Danny Lloyd as Danny Torrance / Scatman Crothers as Dick Hallorann / Barry Nelson as Stuart Ullman / Philip Stone as Delbert Grady / Joe Turkel as Lloyd the Bartender / Anne Jackson as Doctor / Tony Burton as Larry Durkin / Lia Beldam as Young Woman in Bath / Billie Gibson as Old Woman in Bath / Barry Dennen as Bill Watson / David Baxt as Forest Ranger #1 / Manning Redwood as Forest Ranger #2 / Lisa Burns as Grady Daughter

Color: Color

Countries: UK / USA

Creators: n/A

Description: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

Directors: Stanley Kubrick

Genres: Horror / Mystery

Languages: English

Location: Colorado, USA

MPAA: R

Opening Weekend: n/A

Plot: A man, his son and wife become the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel where Danny, the son, sees disturbing visions of the hotel's past using a telepathic gift known as "The Shining". The father, Jack Torrance, is underway in a writing project when he slowly slips into insanity as a result of cabin fever and former guests of the hotel's ghosts. After being convinced by a waiter's ghost to "correct" the family, Jack goes completely insane. The only thing that can save Danny and his mother is "The Shining".

Poster: posters/0081505.jpg

Rating: 8.5

Release Date: 23 May 1980 (USA)

Runtime: 142 min

Seasons: n/A

Sound Mix: Mono

Tagline: The tide of terror that swept America IS HERE[UK Poster]

Title: The Shining

Trailer:

Url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/

Votes: 362,290

Writers: Stephen King / Stanley Kubrick

Year: 1980

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