The Shining
1980 · Movie · 146 min. · United Kingdom
Writer Jack Torrance takes a job as a winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the remote Colorado mountains. He moves in, along with his wife Wendy and son Danny, in the hope that the isolation will cure his writer’s block. But as the weather isolates them, Jack descends into madness. And then apparitions from the hotel’s past appear, imploring Jack to kill his family.
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast Jack Nicholson · Shelley Duvall · Danny Lloyd · Scatman Crothers · Barry Nelson · Philip Stone · Joe Turkel · Lia Beldam · Billie Gibson · Barry Dennen · David Baxt · Manning Redwood · Lisa Burns · Alison Coleridge · Norman Gay · Tony Burton · Anne Jackson · Jana Shelden · Burnell Tucker
Soundtrack Rachel Elkind · Wendy Carlos
Screenplay Stanley Kubrick · Diane Johnson · Stephen King
Cinematography John Alcott
Original title The Shining
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