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Dominican Rep. Stephen King's The Shining miniseries
- Original title
- Stephen King's The Shining
- Year
- 1997
- Running time
- 270 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Stephen King. Novel: Stephen King
- Cast
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Steven Weber
Rebecca De Mornay
Courtland Mead
Melvin Van Peebles- Wil Horneff
Elliott Gould- John Durbin
Stanley Anderson
Pat Hingle- Cynthia Garris
- Mickey Giacomazzi
- Tomas Herrera
- Tim Perovich
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- TV Series. Mystery. Horror | TV Miniseries. Supernatural. Haunted Houses
- Movie Groups
- Stephen King Adaptations
- Synopsis
- Television adaptation of Stephen King novel -and famous Stanley Kubrick's film-. Jack Torrance accepts a job as caretaker at The Overlook Hotel in the remote Colorado Mountains while it is closed for the winter season. Jack has a drinking problem, which caused him to lose his previous job as a teacher after he punched out a pupil while drunk. Jack is now in recovery and trying to turn his life around. He, his wife Wendy and 7-year-old son Danny move into The Overlook. Jack intends to spend the winter, where they will be snowed in, to concentrate on writing a play. Before all the staff departing, the cook Dick Halloran detects that Danny has a powerful case of what he calls ‘the shining’ or psychic ability. Halloran warns Danny that the hotel has ghosts and tells him to never go into Room 217. Soon after they settle in, spooky things begin to happen. Jack begins to brood and become angry with Danny over minor matters. As the hotel ghosts start to become stronger, drawing on Danny’s shining, they prey on Jack by providing him with alcohol. As Jack sinks into alcoholism once again, the spirits of the hotel urge him to kill Wendy and Danny, wanting to absorb Danny’s shining so that they can become more powerful.
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- Awards
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1997: Emmy: Best Make-up and Sound Editing. Nominated for Best Mniseries1997: Saturn Awards (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films): 2 awards.
- Critics' reviews
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"'The Shining' radiates profound power as a deeply evocative and nuanced piece, rendered as a grandly textured triptych working on multiple levels."
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"A faithful, literal, author-authorized version of the novel. The picture is big. The ideas are small"
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"Though uneven and padded (like the book), it delivers the nasty goods"
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