The Shining

Plot

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 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.

Main cast

Jack Nicholson

Jack Torrance

Shelley Duvall

Wendy Torrance

Danny Lloyd

Danny

Scatman Crothers

Hallorann

Barry Nelson

Ullman

Philip Stone

Grady

Joe Turkel

Lloyd

Anne Jackson

Doctor

Tony Burton

Durkin

Lia Beldam

Young woman in bath

Billie Gibson

Old woman in bath

Barry Dennen

Watson