The read
Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do. The highest scoring of the 2 titles in its series.
Synopsis
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Ratings
IMDb8.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes84%
Metacritic68/100
Audiences rate it 16 points higher than critics do.
19,395 audience votes
Key crew
- Diane JohnsonScreenplay
- Wendy CarlosOriginal Music Composer
- Stanley KubrickScreenplay
- Rachel ElkindOriginal Music Composer
- Stanley KubrickDirector
Cast
- Jack NicholsonJack Torrance
- Shelley DuvallWendy Torrance
- Danny LloydDanny
- Scatman CrothersHallorann
- Barry NelsonUllman
- Philip StoneGrady
- Joe TurkelLloyd
- Anne JacksonDoctor
- Tony BurtonDurkin
- Lia BeldamYoung Woman in Bath
- Billie GibsonOld Woman in Bath
- Barry DennenWatson
Stills
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Themes
hotelchild abusebased on novel or bookisolationtelepathydelusionsnowstormcoloradoseclusionsurrealismwriter's blockalcoholism
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