Originally Posted: 19 October 2012 IMDB: 8.5/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 88% Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd. Written By: Stanley Kubrick(Screenplay), Stephen King(Novel) Directed By: Stanley Kubrick Release Date: 23 May 1980 Described by IMDB as: "A man, his son and wife become the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel where Danny, the son, sees disturbing visions of the hotel's past using a telepathic gift known as "The Shining". The father, Jack Torrance, is underway in a writing project when he slowly slips into insanity as a result of cabin fever and former guests of the hotel's ghosts. After being convinced by a waiter's ghost to "correct" the family, Jack goes completely insane. The only thing that can save Danny and his mother is 'The Shining'."