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Take Shelter is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jeff Nichols released in USA on 30 september 2011 with Michael Shannon
Take Shelter (2011)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 30 september 2011
Length 2h
Directed by Jeff Nichols
OriginUSA
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films, Personne sourde ou muette
Rating72%
Take Shelter is a 2011 American drama-thriller film written and directed by Jeff Nichols and starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain. Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father (Shannon) questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. It was nominated for four Saturn Awards including Best Horror or Thriller Film and Best Actress for Chastain, and won Best Writing for Nichols and Best Actor for Shannon.
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In Lagrange, Ohio, Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) has apocalyptic dreams, and visual and auditory hallucinations, of rain "like motor oil", swarms of menacing black birds, and being harmed by people close to him; but, he hides all of this from his wife, Samantha (Jessica Chastain), and their deaf daughter Hannah (Tova Stewart). He instead channels his anxieties into a compulsive obsession to build a storm shelter in his backyard; however, his increasingly strange behavior -- including a tendency to cut ties with anyone in his life that has harmed him only in his dreams -- strains his relationship with his family, friends, employer, and the close-knit town. Curtis grudgingly sees a counselor at a free clinic, with whom he talks about his family's psychological history (his mother (Kathy Baker) suffers from paranoid schizophrenia that surfaced in her at about the same age that Curtis is now).Actors
Michael Shannon
(Curtis LaForche)
Jessica Chastain
(Samantha LaForche)
Katy Mixon
(Nat)
Shea Whigham
(Dewart)
Kathy Baker
(Sarah)
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