Shining

UPC: 085391157106

Studio: Warner Home Video

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity, Not For Children]

Summary: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" -- or, rather, a homicidal boy in Stanley Kubrick's eerie 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel. With wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and psychic son Danny (Danny Lloyd) in tow, frustrated writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as the winter caretaker at the opulently ominous, mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. Before the Overlook is vacated for the Torrances, the manager (Barry Nelson) informs Jack that a previous caretaker went crazy and slaughtered his family; Jack thinks it's no problem, but Danny's "shining" hints otherwise. Settling into their routine, Danny cruises through the empty corridors on his Big Wheel and plays in the topiary maze with Wendy, while Jack sets up shop in a cavernous lounge with strict orders not to be disturbed. Danny's alter ego, "Tony," however, starts warning of "redrum" as Danny is plagued by more blood-soaked visions of the past, and a blocked Jack starts visiting the hotel bar for a few visions of his own. Frightened by her husband's behavior and Danny's visit to the forbidding Room 237, Wendy soon discovers what Jack has really been doing in his study all day, and what the hotel has done to Jack. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Category: Horror

Features: Commentary by steadicam inventor/operator Garrett Brown and Historian John Baxter
Vivian Kubrick's documentary The Making of the Shining with optional commentary
3 mesmerizing new featurettes- view from the Overlook: Crafting the Shining, the visions of Stanley Kubrick and Wendy Carlos, composer
Theatrical trailer

Shining

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 10/23/2007

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: 2 PCM stereo, DD1 Dolby Digital Mono, DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 144 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Lucia Bozzola

Eliminating most of the supernatural episodes from the original Stephen King novel, Stanley Kubrick's version of The Shining is at once a coolly ironic near-parody (with a Jack Nicholson performance that defines "over the top") and a genuinely chilling dissection of how a family breaks down when the father cannot (or does not want to) perform his duties as provider and protector. Making the most of the then-new Steadicam technology for intricate camera movements, Kubrick renders the hotel and maze palpable as Danny moves through them, while turning the Overlook itself into an eerily threatening entity, punctuated by Danny's vividly disturbing shinings. It isn't just Jack who is psychotic: it is the hotel and all it represents about the American system. Positioned to be a summer hit, The Shining was released to decidedly mixed reviews (including from King, who vocally objected to Kubrick's alterations of his novel); although it was the most successful movie Kubrick had made, it did not become the blockbuster that he had hoped. Despite this checkered reception, Kubrick's ability to combine icy detachment with visceral dread makes The Shining a profoundly creepy interrogation of madness, memory, and familial disintegration. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Barry Dennen  Actor 
Manning Redwood  Actor 
Lia Beldam  Actor 
Billie Gibson  Actor 
David Baxt  Actor 
Norman Gay  Actor 
Burnell Tucker  Actor 
Lisa Burns  Actor 
Robin Pappas  Actor 
Jana Sheldon  Actor 
Diane Johnson  Screenwriter 
Stanley Kubrick  Director 
Stanley Kubrick  Producer 
Stanley Kubrick  Screenwriter 
Wendy Carlos  Composer (Music Score) 
Jan Harlan  Executive Producer 
Jack Nicholson  Actor 
Shelley Duvall  Actor 
Danny Lloyd  Actor 
Scatman Crothers  Actor 
Barry Nelson  Actor 
Philip Stone  Actor 
Anne Jackson  Actor 
Joe Turkel  Actor 
Tony Burton  Actor 

Country: UK,USA