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The Shining (1980)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews   Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies!   Frustrated writer Jack Torrance takes a job as the winter caretaker at the ominous, mountain-locked Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. When he arrives there with his wife and son, they learn that the previous caretaker had gone mad. Slowly Jack becomes possessed by the evil, demonic presence in the hotel... Production Status: Released Logline: Things go murderously wrong when a writer and his family inhabit a deserted hotel for the winter. Genres: Drama, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Suspense/Horror, Thriller and Adaptation Running Time: 2 hrs. 26 min. Release Date: May 23rd, 1980 MPAA Rating: R Distributors: Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution Production Co.: Peregrine Productions, Producers Circle Company Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures Produced in: United Kingdom