The Shining (1980)


Jack Nicholson          Jack Torrance
Anne Jackson            Doctor
Shelley Duvall          Wendy Torrance
Danny Lloyd             Danny
Scatman Crothers        Halloran
Barry Nelson (II)       Ullman
Philip Stone            Grady
Joseph Turkel           Lloyd
Tony Burton             Durkin
Lia Beldam              Young Woman in Bath
Billie Gibson           Old Woman in Bath
Barry Dennen            Watson

Directed by:            Stanley Kubrick
Produced by:            Jan Harlan, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Fryer


Frustrated writer Jack Torrance takes a job as the winter caretaker at the ominous, mountain-locked 
Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. When he arrives there with his wife and son, they learn 
that the previous caretaker had gone mad. Slowly Jack becomes possessed by the evil, demonic presence 
in the hotel.

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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 hotels ghost's. 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".

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Jack Torrance becomes the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel up in the secluded mountains of Colorado. Jack, 
being a family man, takes his wife and son to the hotel to keep him company throughout the long and 
isolated nights. During their stay strange things occur when Jack's son Danny sees gruesome images powered 
by a force called "The Shining" and Jack is heavily affected by this. Along with writer's block and the 
demons of the hotel haunting him Jack has a complete mental breakdown and the situation takes a sinister 
turn for the worse.

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Jack Torrance gets a job as the custodian of the Overlook Hotel, in the mountains of Colorado. The place 
is closed down during winter, Torrance and his family will be the only occupants of the hotel for a long 
while. When the snow storms block the Torrance family in the hotel, Jack's son Danny, who has some 
clairvoyance and telepathy powers, discovers that the hotel is haunted and that the spirits are slowly 
driving Jack crazy. When Jack meets the ghost of Mr. Grady, the former custodian of the hotel who murdered 
his wife and his two daughters, things begin to get really nasty.