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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 Courtlan Mead plays Danny, whose unique gifts give the story its title, as one of those infuriating TV brats who overacts left right and centre. Fortunately, there are enough creepy moments and a fair few frights to hold the whole thing together: the woman in the bathtub scene being a stand out 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.
On the DVD: Stephen King's The Shining is a nicely packaged set, with the film spread over two discs complete with a commentary featuring Stephen King himself, instantly making this set a must-have for his fans. There are also several deleted scenes which add some interest to parts of the movie. The transfer is good, considering its TV origins, and the crisp sound captures every spooky moment on this well-thought-out and presented set. --Jonathan Weir
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11 Additional Scenes
2.0 Dolby Surround
1.85:1 widescreen
Languages: English, Italian
Hearing impaired: English, Italian
Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Arabic, Romanian
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The real Shining adaption,
By Adam Gardiner "adg211288" (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Stephen King - The Shining [DVD] (DVD)
If it weren't for the clear problem with budget limits and censorship for TV this would easily be getting a 5 Star rating because unlike the film version of the Shining by Stanley Kubrick this TV series actually is The Shining and not just the setting, characters and a few plot points completely rewritten that the 1980 movie was. But the trouble is it clearly suffers from a lack of budget and censorship limits for TV. Ideally an adaption of this book should be a movie, even if it has to be a movie of this length (over four hours). The hedge animals could have been done better and there were some scenes that really needed to go above the 15 rating that the series has to portray the more sinister parts of the novel. The acting however is superb. I think that Steven Weber is a good choice as Jack Torrance and portrays Jack's growing madness well and the series makes it clear that Jack going mad was not natural but rather the supernatural influence of the hotel. All in all very good.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
The Shining,
By A Customer
This review is from: Stephen King - The Shining [DVD] (DVD)
This was a little long in places but this was necessary as the whole story was much closer to the original book, with the development of the story and the gradual build up to the end of the story. The actors all slightly underplayed their roles making the whole situation more believable. The parts when the topiary animals creep up on unsuspecting members of the family is especially creepy.Personally I preferred it to the film version starring Jack Nicholson as that version seemed to just use the most dramtic parts of the book to make a horror film while missing out the background leading to situations.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Version To Date,
By A Customer
This review is from: Shining the Parts 1 & 2 [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Now I'm not going to disrespect the Jack Nicolson/Kubrick version of The Shining because that one is awesome. But if you have read the book and want to see a great representation of what the book really covers. Madness, greed, depravity, murder (redrum), and dependance. This is the movie for you.
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