Rating: R
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 10/23/2007
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: 2/DD1/DD2
Run Time: 144 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity, Not For Children
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
"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. Settling into their routine,
Danny cruises through the empty corridors on his Big Wheel and plays in the topiary maze with
Wendy, while
Jack sets up shop in a cavernous lounge with strict orders not to be disturbed.
Danny's alter ego, "Tony," however, starts warning of "redrum" as
Danny is plagued by more blood-soaked visions of the past, and a blocked
Jack starts visiting the hotel bar for a few visions of his own. Frightened by her husband's behavior and
Danny's visit to the forbidding Room 237,
Wendy soon discovers what
Jack has really been doing in his study all day, and what the hotel has done to
Jack.
~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
