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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790772721
ISBN: 0790772728
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 07, 2003
Running Time: 273 minutes
Sales Rank: 4570
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 27, 1997
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Description:
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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Amazon.com:
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
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Rating:  - One of the best made for TV King adaptations ever
Jack Torrance (Steven Weber) has hit rock bottom, both personally and professionally, having lost a teaching job due to roughing up a student who slashed his tires and (almost) his marriage to his wife, Wendy (Rebecca DeMornay)after roughing up their son (Courtland Mead) to the point of breaking the young boy's arm.
But all is not quite lost; a friend of Jack's (and fellow recovering alcoholic) has helped him get a job as the off-season caretaker for the Overlook, a swanky old resort ... Read More
Rating: - Just Like Pictures In A Book...
Let me start by saying that I'm a huge fan of the 1980 Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.No one can ever top Jack Nicholson's "Here's Johnny!"Nor can anyone top his performance.
Naturally when I heard that a made for TV movie version was going to air on ABC over the course of three nights, a total of six hours, I was VERY interested.I knew from the start that this was going to truly be based on the book, especially since the title is Stephen King's The Shining.I'm really happy that ... Read More
Rating: - This is the best version...
The original movie is nothing like the the book by Steven King.This version follows the book almost exactly.
If you are ever in Estes Park, Colorado, you need to stay at the Stanley Hotel.It was the hotel that inspired King to write the book in the first place.
The hotel is not inexpensive, but it is a beautiful setting.I think King stayed in room 217 while he was there and that room is ALWAYS booked.
Rating:  - Not half as good and creepy as Kubicks version...
Its OK.... worth seeing.
Its not half as good as Kubicks version. And the child actor in this one is a good actor, but he has a very annoying voice and its very hard to stop focusing on his lips which never close.Watch it and you will see what I mean.
Rating:  - True to the original story -- really good scary entertainment
I liked this movie/miniseries a lot.I like the original "The Shining" with Jack Nicholson a lot too.Fact is, they are just different, but both are good.The Nicholson version is Stanley Kubrick's interpretation of the story, and it deviates a great deal from the original novel.
This version of "The Shining" hews extremely close to the original Stephen King novel, which is one of King's best.Further, the actors here are much closer to the characterizations in the novel.In particular, ... Read More
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