The Shining
This edition has the movie spanning two discs, but will be shipped together and treated as only one title on your ZipList.
This is the 1997 television mini-series, not the 1980 theatrical release.
Jack Torrance (Steven Weber) and his family (Rebecca De Mornay and Courtland Mead) move into the sprawling, vacant Overlook Hotel to get away from it all. Away from the alcoholism that derails Jack's writing career. Away from the violent outbursts that mar Jack's past. But Jack's young son Danny knows better. He possesses a psychic gift called the shining-a gift the hotel's vile spirits desperately want.
In the hands of Stephen King the "dead" Overlook comes horrifyingly alive. Phantoms lurk, the message "redrum" appears with scary frequency and even garden topiary lurches into macabre existence in this atmospheric shocker scripted by King from his own novel and directed by ace King screen adaptor Mick Garris (Sleepwalkers, The Stand)
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Certainly different than Kubrick's take on it - Coconut_Willy
The original movie will always be one of my favorites so I will not even try to compare the two versions. This one is what Stephen King had always been hoping for so he asked Mick Garris to direct it. Of course, the 'made for TV' limitations are fully in place which forced a few potentially interesting scenes to be a lot tamer. Overall, the storyline is quite good and is very well developed. Despite being quite long at over 4 and a half hours, I did not find that it dragged on anywhere. The cast is good doing a fine acting job with a well written dialogue and nice characters. The kid is for sure very annoying though. The sets and locations are great, the soundtrack is appropriate and the camera work is good. I would certainly recommend this if you enjoy mini-series of this nature but, for me, it is not even in the same league as the original movie.LOVED IT! - sheste
I never read the book, so I can't compare, but I LOVED this even better than the original. I think it's mainly because I was not a huge fan of Shelly Duval. I found her to be incredibly irritating in the original movie, and I think Rebecca DeMornay is a much better actress!
I have been wishing for YEARS, since I first saw this, that I could find it on video. YAY ZIP!For those that read and loved the book. - cathyottawa
Stephen King was never happy with the Nicholson movie, because it strayed so far from the book, and he thought Nicholson was too old for the part.
He always wanted to remake it. And he finally did.
He chose the TV movie format, so it could be long enough to include everything. He didn't want it butchered again.
I love the original as a movie in it's own right, but it did stray from the book in some pretty key places (the entire third act bears no resemblence to the book).
This miniseries is for those that read and enjoyed the book, and wanted to see THAT story told. Try to forget the original, and view this with fresh eyes as it's own movie. You should enjoy it.
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Certainly different than Kubrick's take on it - Coconut_Willy
The original movie will always be one of my favorites so I will not even try to compare the two versions. This one is what Stephen King had always been hoping for so he asked Mick Garris to direct it. Of course, the 'made for TV' limitations are fully in place ...LOVED IT! - sheste
I never read the book, so I can't compare, but I LOVED this even better than the original. I think it's mainly because I was not a huge fan of Shelly Duval. I found her to be incredibly irritating in the original movie, and I think Rebecca DeMornay is a much ...For those that read and loved the book. - cathyottawa
Stephen King was never happy with the Nicholson movie, because it strayed so far from the book, and he thought Nicholson was too old for the part.
He always wanted to remake it. And he finally did.
He chose the TV movie format, so it could be ...