The Shining(Movie, 1980)

Name: The Shining
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 1980
Duration: T02:24:00
Rating: 4.1

| 2h 24min | Genres: Horror, Thriller

Rating: 4.1/5 (with 7,965 votes)

The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. It is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel of the same name and stars Jack Nicholson, Danny Lloyd, Shelley Duvall, and Scatman Crothers. Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, a writer and recovering alcoholic who accepts a new position as the off-season caretaker of the Overlook Hotel. Lloyd plays his young son Danny, who has psychic abilities ("the shining"), which he learns about from head chef Dick Hallorann (Crothers). Danny's imaginary friend Tony warns him the hotel is haunted before a winter storm leaves the family snowbound in the Colorado Rockies. Jack's sanity deteriorates under the influence of the hotel and the residents, and Danny and his mother Wendy (Duvall) face mortal danger. Production took place almost exclus... ()

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Awards & Nominations for The Shining

nominated for: Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress

About The Shining

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)

Shot in: California, Colorado, Hertfordshire, Pinewood Studios

Plays in: Colorado

Based on the work of: Stephen King ("The Shining")

Derivative works/Adaptions: "Jordan Hates the Writing" (find it on Amazon), "Room 237" (movie, 2012)

Made by: Hawk Films, Peregrine, Producers Circle

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 41 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Estonian (ET), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hindi (HI), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Indonesian (ID), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Burmese (MY), Norwegian Bokmål (NB), Dutch (NL), Norwegian Nynorsk (NN), Norwegian (NO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Slovenian (SL), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 05/23/1980

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone, Joe Turkel, Tony Burton, Barry Dennen, Manning Redwood, Anne Jackson, Vivian Kubrick

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Producer: Stanley Kubrick

Screenwriter: Diane Johnson, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen King

Film Editor: Ray Lovejoy

Director of Photography: John Alcott

Composer: Wendy Carlos

Costume designer: Milena Canonero

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"O Iluminado"

"Shining : L'enfant lumière"

"Zárení"

"Hiilgus"

"El Resplandor"

"Hohto"

"I lampsi"

"Derakhshesh"

"シャイニング"

"シャイニング：1980"

"Mirdzums"

"Lśnienie"

"Rongraem Phi Narok"

"Stanley Kubrick's The Shining"

"Porlash"

Keywords: isolation, hotel, haunted hotel, loneliness, hotelier, caretaker, based on novel or book, writer, writers-block, colorado, alcoholic, vision, cult film, psychological thriller, snowed in, delusion

Budget: 19,000,000 USD

Revenue: 44,781,695 USD (= 236%)