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The Shining: With Rebecca De Mornay, Steven Weber, Wil Horneff, Courtland Mead. A recovering alcoholic must wrestle with demons within and without when he and his family move into a haunted hotel as caretakers.
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Stephen King's The Shining TV-14 1997 1 Season Horror List Reviews 61% Fewer than 50 Ratings Avg. Audience Score Unspeakable evils confront a caretaker's family in a desolate hotel.
- Rebecca De Mornay
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- The Slow Pace
- Jack's Sobriety
- Danny's Age and Character
- Tony's Presence
- The Time Jump
King took writing the 1997 TV adaptation of The Shining as a chance to regain control of the story and show audiences what the original story was all about. The general plot of the show is intensely loyal to the book; King put in every little bit of information and dialogue that was missing from Kubrick's film adaptation. So, the show details - to ...
Jack's struggle with alcoholism is front-and-center in the television show. In the miniseries, Jack stops drinking and attempts to be sober as well as work on himself as a person. Before he and his family get snowed in, Jack is seen attending AA meetings. After the snow comes, he's seen reading from AA books. The show details the ups and downs and ...
In the book, Danny is a five-year-old boy. That occasionally makes him hard to relate to since he is such a young character. In the TV series, though, his age was raised to seven, which makes a big difference in terms of how he talks and behaves. In both King's novel and Kubrick's movie adaptation, Danny is an overall quiet child who says very litt...
In King's book and Kubrick's movie adaptation, Tony is Danny's imaginary friend. He is completely imaginary. In the book, readers see Danny converse with him inside of his head, and in the end it's uncovered that Tony is actually Danny's future adult self. In the movie, Tony "speaks" through Danny's wiggling finger (pictured); in fact, Danny voicin...
The biggest change the television adaptation made was to the ending - it's entirely new. It contains the book's ending, with the boiler exploding and Dick saving Danny and Wendy, but then it tacks on a time jump. The story fast-forwards a decade to Danny's graduation from high school. As it turns out, he appears to be the Tony of his imagination, i...
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Season 1 – Stephen King's The Shining. Unspeakable evils confront a caretaker's family in a desolate hotel.
Mark Carliner. Writer (s) Stephen King. Starring. Steven Weber Rebecca De Mornay Courtland Mead Melvin Van Peebles. Composer (s) Nicholas Pike. Editor (s) Patrick McMahon. Cinematography. Shelley Johnson. Distributor (s) Warner Bros. Walt Disney. Production Companies. Lakeside Productions Warner Bros. Television. Budget. $21 million. Language.
