The Shining : Novelist and recovering alcoholic Jack Torrance has a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel.  The glorious early-20th century resort only operates in warm weather because the snowy roads deny access in the colder months. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, Mr. Ullman, that he and his family will be snowbound through most of the winter and of the potential for cabin fever. He drives the point home by telling him that the previous caretaker , Charles Grady, went crazy and brutally killed his wife, his two girls (ages eight and ten), and finally himself. Taking the job, Jack brings his wife, Wendy , with him, as well as his young son, Danny who sees disturbing visions of the hotel's past using a telepathic gift known as "The Shining". Some of the visions come from Tony - "the little boy who lives in Danny's mouth". Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this "Shining" and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before. Jack is working on a writing project when he slowly slips into insanity as a result of cabin fever and former guests of the hotels ghost's. After being convinced by a waiter's ghost to "correct" the family, Jack goes completely insane,  and Wendy is convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing Grady did. Starring  Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone. Released 1980

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