Take Shelter
In LaGrange, Ohio, Curtis LaForche has apocalyptic dreams and visual and auditory hallucinations of rain "like fresh motor oil", swarms of menacing black birds, and being harmed by people close to him. He hides all of this from his wife, Samantha, and their deaf daughter, Hannah. He instead channels his anxieties into a compulsive obsession to improve and enlarge 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, Sarah, has paranoid schizophrenia that surfaced in her at about the same age that Curtis is now.
MPAA Rating: | R |
Genre: | Drama, Thriller, Sci Fi |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Sophia Lin, Greg Strause, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Kevin Flanigan, Chris Perot, Adam Wilkins, Richard Rothfeld, Sarah Green, Tyler Davidson, Colin Strause, Robert Ruggeri, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones |
Directed By: | Jeff Nichols |
Written By: | Jeff Nichols |
Cast: | Jason Botsford, Marianna Alacchi, Jessica Chastain, Charles Moore, Joanna Tyler, Kathy Baker, Scott Knisley, Angie Marino-Smith, Ray McKinnon, Isabelle Smith, Jeffrey Grover, Stuart Greer, Bart Flynn, Guy Van Swearingen, Maryanne Nagel, Ken Strunk, Jacque Jovic, Katy Mixon, Michael Shannon, Pete Ferry, Ron Kennard, Natasha Randall, Tova Stewart, Bob Maines, Robert Longstreet, Heather Caldwell, Sheila Hullihen, Molly McGinnis, John Kloock, Nick Koesters, Shea Whigham, Kim Hendrickson, Joe Zamora, LisaGay Hamilton |
In Theaters: | Nov 10, 2011 |
Runtime: | 2 hours |
Production: | Hydraulx, REI Capital, Grove Hill Productions, Strange Matter Films |
Budget: | $5,000,000 |
Box Office: | $1,730,296 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |