Movie Info

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...(read more...) 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.

Director: Stanley Kubrick

MPAA: R

Running Time: 1 hr. 59 min.

Release Date: May 23, 1980

Cast: Barry Nelson, Danny Lloyd, Jack Nicholson, Joe Turkel, Scatman Crothers, Shelley Duvall, Tony Burton