Shutter Island Plot
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up for a fourth time for this adaptation of Shutter Island, a novel by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River). The film opens in 1954 as World War II veteran and current federal marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner, Chuck (Mark Ruffalo), ferry to Shutter Island, a water-bound mental hospital housing the criminally insane. They have been asked to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer), a patient admitted to the asylum after she murdered her three children. As Teddy quizzes Dr. Cawley (Ben Kingsley), the head of the institution, he begins to suspect that the authorities in charge might not be giving him the whole truth, and that a terrible fate may befall all the patients in the spooky Ward C -- a unit devoted to the most heinous of the hospital's inmates. Complicating matters further, Teddy has a secret of his own -- the arsonist who murdered his wife is incarcerated on Shutter Island. Driven to confront his
Box Office
Budget :
$80 mn
Box Office :
$294.8 mn
Shutter Island Cast
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Highly Recommended
Shutter Island is a movie which you can either love or hate, nothing in-between. It is an adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel. While most film adaptations leave you underwhelmed, Martin Scorsese shows you how its done. The film has the essence of the novel which makes you feel that you're watching it for the first time everytime you watch it. It is so intriguing right from the beginning and the climax just messes with your brain.It really does.The film doesn't go for cheap thrills or gore like most films of this genre. It manages to keep you engrossed till the very end. The Martin Scorsese -Leonardo DiCaprio collaboration gives another great flick. The movie has some... |
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