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starring: Stanley Anderson, Peter Boyles, Dan Bradley, Lou Carlucci, Rebecca De Mornaydirected by: Mick Garris
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790773858
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0790773856
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: January 07, 2003
Running Time: 143 minutes
Sales Rank: 8987
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: April 27, 1997
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Stephen King's The Shining is a new adaptation from the author himself, made for television, that bears very little resemblance to the 1980 Stanley Kubrick version. That's not surprising since Kubrick threw out most of King's novel and presented his own version of the story. Here King redresses the balance in a miniseries that follows his original almost to the letter, and manages to be effectively creepy despite the budget and censorship limitations of the TV format.
Stephen Weber takes over the role of Jack Torrance, the caretaker who slowly descends into madness in the haunted Overlook Hotel. His performance is as far from Jack Nicholson as you could get, with his insanity building slowly and menacingly rather than being virtually mad from the get-go. Rebecca De Mornay is superb as Wendy Torrance, struggling to hold her fragile family together amid the spooky goings-on. Young Courtland Mead plays Danny, whose unique gifts give the story its title, as one of those infuriating TV brats who overacts left, right, and center. Fortunately, there are enough creepy moments and a number of frights to hold the whole thing together, the woman-in-the-bathtub scene being a standout shocker. Sure, there is nothing quite like Nicholson's 'Here's Johnny!' moment, but this is the story King wanted to tell and it still shines brighter than most of the other recent screen adaptations of his work. --Jonathan Weir
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - More true to the book
I liked this miniseries better than the orignial movie. It followed Stephen King's book more closely and was actually filmed at the Stanley Hotel. I thought Steven Weber was more credible as a guy who is slowly taken over by the Hotel than was Jack Nicolson. This version made you understand it was the Hotel that was evil, not the people.
Rating:  - It's Tough to Forget a Horror Icon
I'm a big fan of the TV mini-series work done by Mick Garris and Stephen King. "The Stand", "It", "Tommyknockers", "The Langoliers", "Salems Lot", "Storm of the Century", "Rose Red" etc. (I know Garris wasn't involved with all of them, but he's helmed the best of the lot so far and is synonymous with the King Mini-series niche)I was looking forward to "The Shining" when it was first broadcast, and recently re-watched the DVD presentation.
The Good: Steven Weber and Rebecca De Mornay ... Read More
Rating:  - Very true to the book written by Stephen King!
This is a great movie if you are the type of person who likes a movie about a book to be true to the book. In The Shining that was done by Stanley Kubrick, it was his "interpretation" of the book by Stephen King. And although it was a great movie on its own, it was not at all very true to the book. In this movie, which was a 3 night mini-series on ABC, Stephen King was allowed to make it almost exactly like the book he wrote, simply because there was enough time to! The book was amazing, and this ... Read More
Rating:  - If You Want a Version Closer to the Book...This is It
This TV miniseries is much closer to King's book than the Kubrick enigma. The story is about a recovering alcoholic named Jack Torrance who is put in charge of a winter resort known as the Overlook Hotel. The hotel was often a haven for severely immoral guests who now spiritually inhabit the hotel as ghosts in sort of a hotel purgatory. Torrance's young son, Danny, has a sort of an ESP described as "the shining" by the hotel's chef who shares this mental gift. The ghosts in the hotel manipulate ... Read More
Rating:  - King's flop makes Kubrick's masterpiece shine
Stanley Kubrick was a film artist. I am not sure what Stephen King is when it comes to film, but I do not believe he is someone who respects it as an art form.
Kubrick's film is rich in themes and motifs: Doubling, repetition, lights, mazes, mirroring, Indians, Europeans, white settlers, the American flag. King's films, by comparison, are all what-you-see-is-what-you-get.
This one is no different. Everything is pointed out and spelled out as if the audience is too dumb to ... Read More
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