The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film directed by Stanley Kubrick, co-written with novelist Diane Johnson, and starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, and Danny Lloyd. The film is based on the novel of the same name, by Stephen King, about a writer with a wife and young son who accepts the job of off-season caretaker at an isolated hotel. The son, who possesses psychic abilities, is able to see things in the future or past, such as...
Dick Hallorann tells Danny about his grandmother and how they could communica...
Delbert Grady tells Jack that Danny has a great talent and Jack has no idea a...
Jack is having a drink in the Hotel bar area and is talking about the subject...
Danny apparently passed out in the middle of brushing his teeth. The Doctor ...
Danny tells Dick Hallorann who Tony is and tells him it's the little boy who ...
Delbert Grady tells Jack that his son Danny is too willful but when it comes ...
Stuart Ullman tells Jack what happened in the winter of 1970 with the caretak...
While Dick Hallorann gives a tour of the kitchen to Danny and his mother Wend...
Jack is in the hotel bar and says to himself he would do anything for a drink.
Tony tells the doctor he was talking to Tony before he had an incidence when ...
Wendy brings Jack breakfast in bed of sunny side up eggs.
Stuart Ullman makes sure Jack knows the story behind The Overlook Hotel and a...
Wendy asks Jack if he has come up with any ideas for his writing as of yet. ...
Jack is cornering Wendy and asks what she thinks should be done about Danny a...
Wendy tells Jack she thought the hotel was scary at first but now is comforta...
Wendy and Jack talk about their first impressions of the hotel. Wendy was sca...
Jack is being verbally abusive to Wendy by taunting her about their son Danny...
Danny comes in the room with marks on his neck and Wendy freaks out and accus...
Danny tells the doctor that Tony hides in his stomach if anyone asks to see h...
Jack goes in to the bar at the hotel and the bartender asks Jack what he woul...
Jack explains to Wendy he feels like he h as been at the hotel before, like d...
Jack slowly is coming after Wendy in a neurotic state of mind. Wendy tries to...
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