Back in Colorado, the Overlook is being rebuilt as a resort for the summer, as the ghosts of the original hotel await potential victims. Jack's spirit is also present, looking on Danny with pride. Wendy and Halloran are present at the ceremony. Ten years later, Danny graduates from high school, showing that Tony was Danny's adult incarnate self. Jack sacrifices himself to prevent the ghosts from repossessing him and allows the boiler to explode and destroy the Overlook. Danny, Wendy, and Hallorann (who had only been stunned by the attack) escape to safety.
#ACTRESS PLAAYING THE WIFE IN SHINING FREE#
Danny telepathically communicates with his father, who momentarily breaks free of the ghosts' grip, and then tells him that the old boiler has been neglected.
Hallorann, whom Danny had contacted telepathically, travels from Florida to Colorado, only to be assaulted by Jack with a croquet mallet and left for dead. As Jack's sanity deteriorates, Wendy begins to fear for her and Danny's safety. They also supply him with an open bar, and he begins drinking again. Grady and the other spirits tell Jack that Wendy and Danny are turning against him, and that his only option is to kill them. The ghosts also appear to Jack, led by Delbert Grady, the Overlook's former steward who murdered his entire family and killed himself at the hotel's command. Danny is the first to fully notice the darker character of the hotel, having experienced visions and warnings that foreshadow what he and his parents will encounter over the winter. This force manifests itself with flickering lamps and spectral voices and eventually a full-on masked ball from the Overlook's past. It gradually becomes evident that there is a malevolent force within the hotel that seems determined to use Danny for an unknown, possibly sinister purpose. The Torrances are given a tour of the Overlook before being left alone in the hotel for the winter. Hallorann tells Danny that he too "shines", and that Danny can contact him telepathically anytime he needs assistance.
Danny has an adult mentor named Tony who talks to him in his visions and shows him the future. Upon entering the Overlook and meeting its head cook, Dick Hallorann, Danny discovers that his psychic powers grant him a form of telepathy. Jack believes that the job will provide desperately needed funds and give him the time to complete his first play. Now, nursing a life of sobriety and pulling in work as a writer, Jack takes on the job of looking after the Overlook Hotel, a large colonial building in a picturesque valley in the Colorado Rockies. Horrified by what he has become, Jack tells his wife Wendy that should he ever start drinking again, he will leave them one way or another, implying that he would rather commit suicide than continue living as an alcoholic.
He is also on the verge of losing his family, after assaulting his young son Danny in a drunken rage just a year earlier. Jack Torrance's alcoholism and explosive temper have cost him his teaching job at Stovington, a respectable prep school. However, retrospective critics have viewed the miniseries less fondly, comparing it unfavorably to Kubrick's film version. It was a ratings hit, being in the top 20 of daily viewership numbers for all three episodes acclaimed by critics for its careful pacing, makeup, depth, sound editing and creepy atmosphere and won two Primetime Emmy and two Saturn Awards. Originally airing from April 27 to on the American television network ABC, The Shining enjoyed a favorable reception when it first aired. Several notable writers and filmmakers working in the horror genre cameo in the miniseries' ballroom scene, and King himself appears as an orchestra conductor. Pat Hingle, Elliott Gould, John Durbin, Stanley Anderson, Lisa Thornhill, and Garris' wife Cynthia appear in supporting roles. The 1997 adaptation stars Steven Weber as Jack Torrance Rebecca De Mornay as Jack's wife Wendy Courtland Mead and Wil Horneff as different-aged versions of Danny Torrance and Melvin Van Peebles as Dick Hallorann. The miniseries was shot at The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, King's inspiration for the novel, in March 1996. Directed by Mick Garris from King's teleplay, it is the second adaptation of King's book after the 1980 film by Stanley Kubrick and was written and produced by King based on his dissatisfaction with Kubrick's version. The Shining (stylized as Stephen King's The Shining) is a 1997 three-episode horror television miniseries based on the 1977 Stephen King novel of the same name.
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