The Shining
Summary: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Release Date: June 13, 1980
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Runtime: 2 h 26 min
MPAA: R
Production: Warner Bros., Warner Bros., Hawk Films, Hawk Films, Peregrine, Peregrine, Producers Circle
Movie budget: $ 19,000,000
Domestic: $ 45,634,352
International: $ 1,600,283
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