WHAT is the SHINING about?

Question

you know the movie by m.night-shava-somth'in.
please please be detailed.

Answer 1

No, that wasn't that cheeser M.Night... It was the master Stanley Kubrick.

It's about a family who spends a whole winter as caretakers of a mountain resort, and are snowed in alone. The dad is a writer, who ends up going nuts after a few months and attempts to kill the rest of his family...

Meanwhile it turns out that his son has some strange sixth sense type ability to see things that had gone on in the resort many years ago, including another guy going nuts and killing his family. This is what causes Jack Nicholson to go nuts, but only the little boy can see the foreshadowing of the previous family.

Answer 2

The Shining was directed by Stanley Kubrick, not M. Night Shamalan.

Synopsis from imdb.com:
Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) gets a job as the custodian of the Overlook Hotel, in the mountains of Colorado. The place is closed down during winter, and Torrance and his family will be the only occupants of the hotel for a long while. When the snow storms block the Torrance family in the hotel, Jack's son Danny - who has some clairvoyance and telepathy powers - discovers that the hotel is haunted and that the spirits are slowly driving Jack crazy. When Jack meets the ghost of Mr. Grady, the former custodian of the hotel who murdered his wife and his two daughters, things begin to get really nasty...

Answer 3

The Shining is a classic film by Stanley Kubrick based upon Stephen Kings 1977 best selling novel. Jack Nicholson has the role of his life playing a former school teacher and aspiring novelist who takes a caretaking job at an empty hotel during the winter with his wife and son. His son Danny receives clairvoyant messages, which are his gift of shining from his imaginary friend Tony. Jack slowly loses his mind due to cabin fever and from being posessed by the evil spirits in the haunted hotel. It gets to the point where he is trying to kill his family. Wanna know how it ends, rent the movie.

Answer 4

Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) gets a job as the custodian of the Overlook Hotel, in the mountains of Colorado. The place is closed down during winter, and Torrance and his family will be the only occupants of the hotel for a long while. When the snow storms block the Torrance family in the hotel, Jack's son Danny - who has some clairvoyance and telepathy powers - discovers that the hotel is haunted and that the spirits are slowly driving Jack crazy. When Jack meets the ghost of Mr. Grady, the former custodian of the hotel who murdered his wife and his two daughters, things begin to get really nasty...

A man, his son and wife become the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel, where Danny, the son, sees disturbing visions of the hotel's past using a telepathic gift known as The Shining. The father, Jack Torrance, is underway in writing project when he slowly slips into insanity as a result of cabin fever and former guests of the hotels ghost's. After being convinced by a waiter's ghost to "correct" the family, Jack goes completely insane. The only thing that can save Danny and his mother is The Shining.

Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in up in the secluded mountains of Colorado. Jack, being a family man, takes his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd) to the hotel to keep him company throughout the long, isolated nights. During their stay, strange things occur when Jack's son Danny sees gruesome images powered by a force called 'the shining' and Jack is heavily affected by this. Along with writer's block and the demons of the hotel haunting him, Jack has a complete mental breakdown and the situation takes a sinister turn for the worse.

Answer 5

Well, there is no shinning by M. Night... but the movie is about a family that goes to take care of a hotel during the off season, where a father had once gone crazy and chopped up his family into little pieces. And the isolation does it's number on the main character and he starts going all wacko and goes after his family. Some great quotes from the movie:

"All work and no play makes Jack a Dull boy"
" Give me the bat Wendy. Wendy Give me the bat. I'm not going to hurt'cha I'm just going to bash your f*cking head in"
"HERES JOHNNY!"

Great movie, a must see! Jack Nicolson at his greatest.

Answer 6

It is sort of like a M.NIght film.

His only movies though were Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Villiage, and Lady in the Water.

Signs maybe is what you meant if it actually is M.Night you mean. In it Aliens invade but a pastor who gave up on his faith learns his faith didn't give up on him.

Answer 7

The "movie" was actually a book first, written by Stephen King. It is actually my favorite scary novel.
The original movie produced in 1980 starred Jack Nicholson and was directed by Stanley Kubrick.
A family moves to an isolated (empty) hotel for the winter after the father has taken a position of caretaker. An evil spiritual presence makes the father crazy and moves him to violence. His son, who is psychic sees horrific things that happened in the hotel and forebodings of the future.

Answer 8

The motion-picture version of Stephen King's novel, _The Shining_, was directed by Stanley Kubrick, not M. Night Shyamalan.

IMDb Plot synopsis: "A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future."

Answer 9

You might mean Signs.

The Shining was a film made in 1980 starring Jack Nicholson directed by Stanley Kubrick. Based on a novel by Stephen King

It's about cabin fever.

Answer 10

The movie by Stanley Kubrik is about how the white man destroys all around him and the consequences drive him mad (this is according to my film class). The book by Stephen King is about some kid with a talking finger, an abusive drunk father, and a big ole hotel that sends them crazy and burns down.