All work and no play makes Oscar-winning actor Jack Nicholson--the caretaker of an isolated resort--go way off the deep end, terrorizing his young son and wife (Shelley Duvall). Nicholson plays Jack Torrance, who's come to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel as off-season caretaker. Torrance has never been there before--or has he? The answer lies in a ghostly time warp of madness and murder.