Monday, September 25, 2017

The Shining (1980)

A young family agrees to stay as caretakers in a remote hotel in the mountains. But a spiritual being starts to influence how the people staying act.

This is a classic movie but is not for children. I give this movie a 4.5 out of 5.

Starring Jack Nicholson (The Departed, As Good as It Gets, Chinatown, The Bucket List) as Jack Torrance, Shelley Duvall (Annie Hall, Time Bandits, 3 Women, Frog) as Wendy Torrance, Danny Lloyd (Filmworker, Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy, Room 237, Kubrick Remembered) as Danny, the late Scatman Crothers [1910-1986] (One Flew Over the Cuckoo' s Nest, The Aristocrats, Chico and the Man, Rock Odyssey) as Hallorann, the late Barry Nelson [1917-2007] (Airport, Hudson' s Bay, Shadow of the Thin Man, Monsters) as Ullman, the late Philip Stone [1924-2003] (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, Moses) as Grady, Joe Turkel (Blade Runner, Paths of Glory, The Killing, Miami Vice) as Lloyd, the late Anne Jackson [1925-2016] (Folks!, A Women Called Golda, The Secret Life of an American Wife, Lucky Days) as Doctor, the late Tony Burton [1937-2016] (Rocky movies, Hack!, Assault of Precinct 13, Exorcism) as Durkin, introducing Lia Beldam as Young women in bath, introducing Billie Gibson as Old woman in bath, Barry Dennen (Titanic, Jesus Christ Superstar, Fiddler on the Roof, Heavenly Sword) as Watson, David Baxt (Batman, Superman, Horror Planet, The Man Who Cried!) as Forest Ranger 1, Manning Redwood (A View to a Kill, Outland, Never Say Never Again, Vendetta) as Forest Ranger 2, Lisa Burns (From Borehamwood to Hollywood: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Elstree, Kids, Kubrick Remembered) as Grady Daughter.






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