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Stephen King's The Shining (TV Miniseries)

Stephen King's The Shining

1997

Mick Garris

Steven Weber, Rebecca De Mornay, Courtland Mead, Melvin Van Peebles ...

5.2

2,097

TV Series. Mystery. Horror Television adaptation of Stephen King novel -and famous Stanley Kubrick's film-. Jack Torrance accepts a job as caretaker at The Overlook Hotel in the remote Colorado Mountains while it is closed for the winter season. Jack has a drinking problem, which caused him to lose his previous job as a teacher after he punched out a pupil while drunk. Jack is now in recovery and trying to turn his life around. He, his wife Wendy and 7-year-old ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	John J. O'Connor The New York Times	"This television production leaves the movie in the dust...Mr. King's script and the direction of Mick Garris slowly and skillfully bring 'The Shining' to a pitch of screeching horror."	POS
United States	Miles Beller The Hollywood Reporter	"'The Shining' radiates profound power as a deeply evocative and nuanced piece, rendered as a grandly textured triptych working on multiple levels."	POS
United States	Boston Globe	"A faithful, literal, author-authorized version of the novel. The picture is big. The ideas are small"	NEU
United States	Ken Tucker Entertainment Weekly	"King and Garris’ 'Shining' improves on Kubrick’s in its emotional depth and quality of performances. De Mornay pulls off the tricky role of Wendy"	POS
United States	Ray Richmond Variety	"If 'The Shining' has a weakness in comparison to its predecessor, it’s that it lacks some of the trademark visions of horror (...) But it makes up for that with a consistent, carefully textured story"	POS
United States	Tom Shales The Washington Post	"It's torture. It's hell. And millions will tune in, attracted by King's reputation as America's scaremaster...The best thing would be for everybody to avoid it like the plague, because it is the plague."	NEG
United States	Matt Roush TV Guide	"Though uneven and padded (like the book), it delivers the nasty goods"	POS

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