Scatman Crothers

The Shining

(1980)
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23 May 1980
? R
146 min
Stephen King (novel), Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Diane Johnson (screenplay)
3 wins & 5 nominations.
Signing a contract, Jack Torrance, a normal writer and former teacher agrees to take care of a hotel which has a long, violent past that puts everyone in the hotel in a nervous situation. While Jack slowly gets more violent and angry of his life, his son, Danny, tries to use a special talent, the "Shining", to inform the people outside about whatever that is going on in the hotel.