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MPAA Raing: R
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Genres: Haunted House Film, Horror
Box Office: / $44,017,374
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Summary:
"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... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Jack Nicholson - (Jack Torrance)
Shelley Duvall - (Wendy Torrance)
Danny Lloyd - (Danny Torrance)
Scatman Crothers - (Dick Hallorann)
Barry Nelson - (Ullman)
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Review:
Eliminating most of the supernatural episodes from the original Stephen_King novel, Stanley_Kubrick's version of The Shining is at once a coolly ironic near-parody (with a Jack_Nicholson performance that defines "over the top") and a genuinely chilling dissection of how a family breaks down when the father cannot (or does not want to... Continue >>

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