The Shining

Starring: Danny Lloyd , Jack Nicholson , Shelley Duvall and Scatman Crothers.
Directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Adapted from the bestseller by Stephen King, Kubrick's mesmerizing horror epic concerns a family who moves into a vast, haunted hotel to take care of the premises during a long, deep winter as the writer's-blocked dad slowly goes mad. Meanwhile, the young son begins to get a grip on his telepathic powers... Features an early use of the Steadicam to illustrate the "consciousness" of the "Overlook Hotel" and a performance by Jack Nicholson which is now the stuff of legend. King was apparently unhappy with Kubrick's adaptation of his novel and, as a result, wrote his own script resulting in a 1997 TV mini-series emphasizing themes of alcoholism and child abuse.