Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film The Shining is widely considered one of the greatest horror films of all time by fans and critics alike.
Famous for its ambiguity, The Shining has one of the most heavily discussed and theorized endings in cinematic history.
Based on the book of the same name by Stephen King, The Shining follows Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), a writer who has been hired as the winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in snowy Colorado.
Jack, struggling with writer’s block, thinks this is an excellent opportunity to free himself of distractions and finish writing his book.
Jack brings along his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and their 5-year-old son Danny (Danny Lloyd), and the three of them quickly discover that the Overlook Hotel has a disturbing history that jeopardizes Jack’s sanity and threatens Wendy and Danny’s lives.
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