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THE SHINING: ANNUAL JULY 4TH BALL
1980
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Starring
Jack Nicholson
Shelley Duvall
Danny Lloyd
Scatman Crothers
Runtime
144 minutes
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Welcome to the Annual July 4th Ball at the Overlook Hotel! You’ve always been here.
Stanley Kubrick turned Stephen King’s 1977 novel into something like a grotesquely distorted creative autobiography, the story of an obsessive perfectionist artist—Jack Nicolson’s struggling writer Jack Torrance—whose maddening caretaker residence at the vast, isolated Overlook Hotel has him reaching for the fire axe: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!
Like all Kubrick movies, it hints at the deep Satanic evil at the heart of America—"four presidents have stayed here!"—but also plays as a pitch black satire of middle class morality, family and marriage and the boundless ego of writers and artists. THE SHINING dwells at the outer limits of what can be thought of as a genre film, stretching the definition, filling it out, leaving it richer in its wake.
Stanley Kubrick turned Stephen King’s 1977 novel into something like a grotesquely distorted creative autobiography, the story of an obsessive perfectionist artist—Jack Nicolson’s struggling writer Jack Torrance—whose maddening caretaker residence at the vast, isolated Overlook Hotel has him reaching for the fire axe: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy!
Like all Kubrick movies, it hints at the deep Satanic evil at the heart of America—"four presidents have stayed here!"—but also plays as a pitch black satire of middle class morality, family and marriage and the boundless ego of writers and artists. THE SHINING dwells at the outer limits of what can be thought of as a genre film, stretching the definition, filling it out, leaving it richer in its wake.