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Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
Take Shelter is a 2011 American psychological thriller film, written and directed by Jeff Nichols and starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain.
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Take Shelter

R · 2011 ‧ Horror/Sci-fi ‧ 2 hours
7.3/10 · IMDb 92% · Rotten Tomatoes 85% · TV Guide
Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) lives in a small Ohio town with his loving wife (Jessica Chastain) and hearing-impaired daughter (Tova Stewart). Though money is tight, he and his family are very happy. But then, Curtis begins having terrifying...
Release date: September 30, 2011 (USA)
Director: Jeff Nichols
Screenplay: Jeff Nichols
Budget: $4.75 million
Cinematography: Adam Stone

Apr 4, 2023 · The ongoing theme is that Curtis is losing it because he's inherited delusional schizophrenia from his mother. The ending is the family deciding ...
After a series of eerie nightmares and hallucinatory dreams, a small town man attracts suspicion as he expands his backyard storm shelter - is he mad, ...
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Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, Curtis LaForche, a young husband and father, questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, ...
Jul 11, 2021 · The character in the movie dug an underground shelter based on bad dreams/hallucinations. But the shelter was not an appropriate solution to his ...
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Director Nichols walks a tightrope between giving us a dark, Gothic tale of misunderstood prophecy and a sobering lesson on the state of mental health care in ...
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In this powerful psychological drama, an Ohio family man experiences a series of disturbing visions and begins obsessively constructing a heavily fortified ...
When Curtis (Michael Shannon) begins having nightmares of an encroaching, apocalyptic storm, he refrains from telling his wife, Samantha (Jessica Chastain).