Stephen King's The Shining (Two Disc Special Edition)
by Mick Garris
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Actor: Dan Bradley, Lou Carlucci, Peter Boyles, Rebecca De Mornay, Stanley AndersonDirector: Mick Garris
Primary Contributor: Weber, Steven
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 273 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-01-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Stephen King's The Shining (Two Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: Just like the book
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this movie! I had read the book 3 times and was always disappointed the the Stanley Kubrick's version strayed so far from the the book. I was happy when this version came out because it was truly like seeing the book come to life. It is quite a long movie (approx 3 hrs, 2 discs) but I have watched multiple times and enjoy it every time. I actually got to go to the hotel where it was filmed in Estes Park, CO and take the ghost tour and see where Stephen King thought up this chilling story.
The movie is about a recovering alcoholic that takes a job as a caretaker of the Outlook Hotel (truly known as The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, CO) with his family over the winter. The hotel has its secrets that the son has a intuition about and can "see" the visions of them. They call the visions "the shining". The resident ghosts start to make their presence known through the father as they prey on his weakness as a recovering alcoholic and sort of make him go crazy and want to kill his family. Due to the fact that it is winter time the family cannot escape easily so it truly becomes a hide and seek game.
I would recommend this movie to anyone who loves a chilling ghost story.
Summary of Stephen King's The Shining (Two Disc Special Edition)
Stephen King's The Shining is a new adaptation from the author himself, made for television, that bears very little resemblance to the 1980 Stanley Kubrick version. That's not surprising since Kubrick threw out most of King's novel and presented his own version of the story. Here King redresses the balance in a miniseries that follows his original almost to the letter, and manages to be effectively creepy despite the budget and censorship limitations of the TV format.Stephen Weber takes over the role of Jack Torrance, the caretaker who slowly descends into madness in the haunted Overlook Hotel. His performance is as far from Jack Nicholson as you could get, with his insanity building slowly and menacingly rather than being virtually mad from the get-go. Rebecca De Mornay is superb as Wendy Torrance, struggling to hold her fragile family together amid the spooky goings-on. Young Courtland Mead plays Danny, whose unique gifts give the story its title, as one of those infuriating TV brats who overacts left, right, and center. Fortunately, there are enough creepy moments and a number of frights to hold the whole thing together, the woman-in-the-bathtub scene being a standout shocker. Sure, there is nothing quite like Nicholson's "Here's Johnny!" moment, but this is the story King wanted to tell and it still shines brighter than most of the other recent screen adaptations of his work. --Jonathan Weir
Jack Torrance and his family move into the sprawling, vacant Overlook Hotel to get away from it all. Away from the alcoholism that derails Jack's writing career. Away from the violent outbursts that mar Jack's past. But Jack's young son Danny knows better. He possesses a psychic gift called the shining. - a gift the hotel's vile spirits desperately want.
DVD Features:
Additional Scenes:11 additional scenes
Audio Commentary:Feature-length commentary by Stephen King, cast members Steven Weber and Cynthia Garris, Director Mick Garris and select crew
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