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The Shining
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Frustrated writer Jack Torrance takes a job as the winter caretaker at the opulently ominous, mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. His young son possesses a psychic abilities known as 'The Shining' and is able to see see things from the past and future, such as the ghosts who inhabit the hotel. Some time after settling in, the family is trapped in the hotel by a snowstorm, and Jack gradually becomes influenced by a supernatural presence, descends into madness, and ultimately attempts to murder his wife and son.
Frustrated writer Jack Torrance takes a job as the winter caretaker at the opulently ominous, mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. His young son possesses a psychic abilities known as 'The Shining' and is able to see see things from the past and future, such as the ghosts who inhabit the hotel. Some time after settling in, the family is trapped in the hotel by a snowstorm, and Jack gradually becomes influenced by a supernatural presence, descends into madness, and ultimately attempts to murder his wife and son.
Actors:
Louise Burns,
Burnell Tucker,
Robin Pappas,
Ina Clare,
Lisa Burns,
Billie Gibson,
Anne Jackson
Louise Burns
1968
Burnell Tucker
Robin Pappas
Ina Clare
1933, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
Lisa Burns
1968
Billie Gibson
Anne Jackson
3 September 1925, Millvale, Pennsylvania, USA
Country:
United Kingdom, United States
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May 13, 2013
The first time I saw Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, I had to turn it off during three key moments... Perhaps this time, I prayed, [it] would seem almost comically silly. Yeah, not so much.February 17, 2016
If The Shining isn't trivial, it certainly encourages one to think that it is. But, perhaps, even that's a change for the better. Generally, it's the other way around.October 21, 2010
Kubrick has made a movie that will have to be reckoned with on the highest level.April 19, 2013
...above all a movie about spaces, and how few things are more frightening than not knowing which way to go.April 30, 2009
As a ghost story and adaptation of the Stephen King novel, it's largely a failure. On the other hand, as an example of directorial bravura and as a study of madness and the unreliable narrator, it's a brilliant success.December 21, 2016
Anyone coming to this work for the first time should be forewarned that the will generate more giggles (and perhaps a yawn or two), but there is absolutely nothing here to fear.May 22, 2016
Shock effect and graphic imagery don't compensate for the sense of pointlessness and even distaste that is left at the end of the movie.June 17, 2014
One of the best scary movies ever made, one of the best scary movies even imaginable.May 08, 2007
Kubrick is after a cool, sunlit vision of hell, born in the bosom of the nuclear family, but his imagery -- with its compulsive symmetry and brightness -- is too banal to sustain interest, while the incredibly slack narrative line forestalls suspense.October 06, 2013
The Shining is like a near-miss auto accident: You don't know how scared you really were until you start shaking a few hours later.October 06, 2013
A masterpiece.May 08, 2007
The movie is not about ghosts but about madness and the energies it sets loose in an isolated situation primed to magnify them.