The Shining (1997)

Country of Origin: USA
Date(s) of Broadcast:
Number of Seasons: 1
Total Number of Episodes: 3
Average Episode Running Times: 91 mins
Format: colour
Sound: Dolby

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Lakeside Productions / Warner Bros. Television
Executive Producer: Stephen King
Supervising Producer: Elliot Friedgen
Producer: Mark Carliner
Associate Producer: Laura Gibson
Unit Production Managers: Robert Birnbaum, Robert Del Valle
Production Coordinator: Yvonne Yaconelli
Assistant Production Coordinator: Michael Hubert (uncredited)

SCRIPT
Script / Novel: Stephen King

DIRECTION
Director: Mick Garris
1st Assistant Director: David O. Sosna
2nd Assistant Director: Peter Merwin

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Shelly Johnson
2nd Unit Director of Photography: Don Devine
2nd Unit 1st Assistant Camera: David Eubank
2nd Assistant Camera: Stefan Tarzan (uncredited)
2nd Assistant B Camera: Kent Harvey
Camera Loader: Kent Harvey
Chief Lighting Technician: Terry Hall
1st Company Grip: Bob Babin
Crane Operator: Michael Butler (uncredited)
Telecine Colourist: Skip Kimball
Lab: 4MC Laboratory, Los Angeles, California, USA

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Patrick McMahon
Assistant Editor: Chad O. Mochrie
Post Production Services: Modern Videofilm Inc

MUSIC
Music: Nicholas Pike
Music Editors: Michael Jay, Stan Jones

SOUND
Production Sound Mixer: Richard Schexnayder
Re-Recording Mixers: Don Digirolamo, Elmo Ponsdomenech, Larry Stensvold
Supervising Sound Editor: Thomas DeGorter
Dialogue Editors: Ron Evans, Gary Lewis, Barbara Issak, Paul Longstaffe
ADR Editor: James Hebenstreit
Sound Effects Editors: Peter Bergren, Ken J. Johnson, Brian Thomas Nist, Bradley C. Katona, Eric A. Norris, Brian Thomas Nist, Joseph H. Earle Jr, Linda Keim, Bruce Tanis, Andrew Ellerd (uncredited)
Foley Artists: Alyson Dee Moore, Ginger Geary

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: Bill Corso
Make Up: Tracey Levy, Douglas Noe, VeNeill, Barry R. Kopper, Ashlee Petersen, Jill Rockow, Joe Colwell
Hair: Tim Jones, Lisa Marie Rosenberg
Additional Hair: Barbara Wilder
Costume Designer: Warden Neil
Costume Supervisors: Nancy Butts Martin, Randall Thropp

SPECIAL MAKE UP EFFECTS
Special Make Up Effects / Topiary Designer: Steve Johnson's XFX Inc
Prosthetics Make Up: Steve Johnson, Joel Harlow

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Lou Carlucci

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: VIFX
Visual Effects Supervisor: Boyd Shermis
Visual Effects: Gian Ganziano (uncredited)
Digital Effects Supervisor: Dan Kaufman (uncredited)
3D Technical Director: Mark Leo Perry
Digital Compositor: Chris Ryan
Additional Digital Compositing: CIS Hollywood
Motion Control Operator: Tim Drnec
Main Title Design: Castle/Bryant/Johnsen

VIFX
Production Coordinator: Paul Taglianetti
Miniature Effects Crew Chief: Carlyle Livingston
3D Digital Artist: Brian C. Davis (uncredited)

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Craig Stearns
Art Director: Randy Moore
Set Decorator: Ellen Totleben
On-Set Dresser: Gregory P. Alcus (uncredited)
Property Master: Tim Perovich
Lead Man: Robert Lee Robinson

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Larry K. Johnson
Acting Coach For Courtland Mead: Dawn Jeffory-Nelson
Transportation Coordinator: Richard Belyeu

LOCATIONS
Locations: Arvada, Colorado, USA; Denver, Colorado, USA; Estes Park, Colorado, USA; The Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado, USA
Location Manager: Sherry Erickson

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Dan Bradley

CASTING
Casting: Lynn Kressel
Location Casting: Nina Kether Axelrod

CAST
Rebecca De Mornay (Wendy Torrance)
Steven Weber (Jack Torrance)
Courtland Mead (Danny 'Doc' Torrance)
Wil Horneff (Tony / 18 Year-Old Danny)
Melvin Van Peebles (Dick Hallorann)
Elliott Gould (Stuart Ullman)
John Durbin (Horace 'Harry' Derwent)
Stanley Anderson (Delbert Charles Grady)
Pat Hingle (Pete Watson)
Cynthia Garris (lady in room 217)
Micky Giacomazzi (waiter)
Tomas Herrera (George Hatfield)
Tim Perovich (croquet (layer)
Kenn Solomon (basketball player)
Ron Allen (TV weatherman)
Roger Baker (Rover the Dogman)
Richard Beall (airline gate agent)
Peter Boyles (AA member)
Dan Bradley (2nd bodyguard)
Joyce Bulifant (customer)
Lou Carlucci (1st bodyguard)
Richard Christian Matheson (1st hitman)
Frank Darabont (Dr Daniel Edwards)
Christa Faust (screaming female ghost)
Mick Garris (Hartwell)
Wendelin Harston (car rental clerk)
Lois Hicks (bookstore lady)
Peter James (praying ghost)
Stephen King (Cage Creed)
Bertha Lynn (TV announcer)
Billie McBride (Principal)
Richard Peterson (2nd hitman)
Sam Raimi (Howie Langston)
J.P. Romano (1st waiter)
David J. Schow (1st ghost in playhouse)
Shawnee Smith (waitress)
David Sosna (Gene)
Preston Sturges (2nd Ghost in Playhouse)
Lisa Thornhill (beautiful ghost)
Jan Van Sickle (Alfred Shockley)
David Zambrano (Mitch)
Miguel Ferrer (voice of Mark James Torrance - uncredited)
Christopher Loucks (graduation attendee - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

Former teacher, writer and alcoholic Jack Torrance takes a job as the Winter caretaker at the remote Overlook Hotel, a luxury resort high in the Colorado Rockies. He takes his wife, Wendy, and son, Danny, with him hoping that the seclusion will give him time to put his writing career back together. But it soon becomes clear that there's something malignant haunting the corridirs of the Overlook, something that is gradually possessing Jack, something that has been woken by Danny's psychic power, his "shining"...

Australia
Rating: M

UK
Rating: 15

Some guests never leave!

Hohto - Finnish title
Ragyogás - Hungarian title
El resplandor - Spanish title
Shining - French title
Stephen King Shining - Italian title
Stephen King's The Shining

1997
Casting Society of America, USA (Artios)
Best Casting for TV Miniseries' (Lynn Kressel) - nominated

Emmy Awards, USA
Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries or a Special (Bill Corso, Douglas Noe, Tracey Levy,
Ve Neill, Barry R. Koper, Ashlee Petersen, Jill Rockow, Joe Colwell, Steve Johnson, Joel Harlow) - winner
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries or a Special (Thomas DeGorter, Peter Bergren, Ken J. Johnson, Brian Thomas Nist, Joseph H. Earle Jr, Bradley C. Katona, Eric A. Norris, Andrew Ellerd, Linda Keim, Bruce Tanis, Ron Evans, Gary Lewis, Barbara Issak, Paul Longstaffe, James Hebenstreit, Stan Jones, Alyson Dee Moore, Ginger Geary) - winner (for part III)
Outstanding Miniseries (Stephen King, Mark Carliner, Elliot Friedgen) - nominated

1998
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, USA (Saturn Awards)
Best Genre TV Actor (Steven Weber) - winner
Best Single Genre Television Presentation - winner

American Cinema Editors, USA (Eddies)
Best Edited Episode from a Television Mini-Series (Patrick McMahon) - nominated (for part II)

Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA (Golden Reel)
Best Sound Editing, Television Mini-Series: Effects and Foley - nominated

Young Artist Awards, USA
Best Performance in a TV Movie/Pilot/Mini-Series: Young Actor Age 10 or Under (Courtland Mead) - nominated

REMAKE OF
The Shining (1980)

alcoholics; book into film; children; ghosts; hotels; psychics; topiaries; winter; writers