The Shining (1980)

Description

Academy Award winner JACK NICHOLSON and SHELLY DUVALL star in director STANLEY KUBRICK'S disturbing adaptation of STEPHEN KING'S disturbing blockbuster horror novel. When writer Jack Torrance (NICHOLSON), a former alcoholic, accepts a job as the winter caretaker for a hotel high in the Rocky Mountains, isolating him, his wife (DUVALL) and their psychic young son until spring. But when the first blizzard blocks the only road out, the hotel's stored energy from evil past deeds begins to drive Jack insane... and there maybe no escape for his family in this haunting story of madness, memory and family violence.