The Shining

Name: The Shining
Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery
Duration: 2 h 26 min
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson

1980

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8.1

Title: The Shining

Original Title: The Shining

Year: 1980

Info

Country: USA
Length: 146 Minutes (2 hours 26 min)
Budget: $19,000
Genre: Horror Drama Mystery
Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)

Release Dates

UK: October 05 1980
United States: May 23 1980

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Plot

Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) has a job interview for the post of watchman and maintenance of the Overlook Hotel in Colorado during the winter months. From November to May, the hotel is isolated due to heavy snow. Although the hotel owner warns Jack of the danger of isolation for so long since the last watchman went crazy and killed his family before kills himself. However Jack is isolation precisely what he wants to concentrate on finishing a book that he is writing.

Meanwhile, Jack's son, Danny, who has extrasensory powers that allow him to live past events that he haven't lived and see the future, have a vision about the hotel where newly hired his father, a vision full of blood.

Danny, with his mother, arrive at the hotel the day is closed to the public and begin to live there during those three months of isolation. At first everything is peace and quiet, but Jack begins to hear voices in his head ...

Awards

1981 Razzie Awards: 2 0

Cast

Director:

Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick

Jack Torrance

Wendy Torrance

Danny

Hallorann

Ullman

Durkin

Grady

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Trivia

The movie did not like his real author

'The Shining' was eventually re-made as a 1997 miniseries that followed Stephen King's book more closely, because of his dissatisfaction with Stanley Kubrick's adaptation. However, Kubrick owned the rights to the 1980 adaptation, so in order for King to get the right to re-adapt his own book into the miniseries, Kubrick required that he sign a legally-binding contract that forced King to no longer be able to bring up frequent public criticism of Kubrick's film, save for the sole commentary that he was disappointed with Jack Nicholson's portrayal of Jack Torrance as though he had been insane before his arrival at the Overlook Hotel.

Changes in the script

Stanley Kubrick's eccentricities are known to all, so Jack Nicholson stopped trying to learn the script from start to finish. Only what was to be filmed the next day was studied.

Kubrick delaying everyone

According to Variety magazine, the film took almost 200 days to shoot. However, according to assistant editor Gordon Stainforth, it took much more, nearly a year. The film was originally supposed to take 17 weeks, but it ultimately took 51. Because the film ran so long, Warren Beatty's 'Reds' (1981) and Steven Spielberg's 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (1981) were both delayed as they were both waiting to shoot in Elstree Studios.