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Stephen.King's.The.Shining.1997.MULTi.PAL.DVDR-PFi

Title: The Shining

General Information:
Genre: Horror
Year: 1997
Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118460/
IMDB Rating: 6.0
Source: x3DVD5
Menus: Untouched
Extras: Untouched
Length: 260 min.
Tags: stephen.king horror steven.weber rebecca.de.mornay
Video Information:
Video Type: PAL
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Widescreen
Audio Information:
Audio Format: 2.0 Dolby Digital
Languages: English, French, Italian
Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Arabic, Romanian.
Description:
Description: Jack Torrance (Steven Weber) and his family (Rebecca De Mornay and Courtland Mead) 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.

In the hands of Stephen King the "dead" Overlook comes horrifyingly alive. Phantoms lurk, the
message "redrum" appears with scary frequency and even garden topiary lurches into macabre existence
in this atmospheric shocker scripted by King from his own novel and directed by ace King screen
adaptor Mick Garris (Sleepwalkers, The Stand)

"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
Additional Information:
Extra Info: Special Features

*Feature-Length Commentary by Stephen King, Cast Members Steven Weber and Cynthia Garris, Director Mick Garris & Select Crew

*11 Additional Scenes