| Director: | Martin Scorsese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer: | Laeta Kalogridis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Starring: | Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Released: | February 18, 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Runtime: | 138 minutes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Story: |
The film, based on the novel "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lehane, is an atmospheric
psychological thriller set in a 1950s asylum for the criminally insane. It's 1954, and
up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the
disappearance of a patient from Shutter Island's Ashecliffe Hospital. He'd been
gunning for an assignment on the island for reasons of his own -- but before long he
wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital
doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister.
Teddy's code-breaking skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues proliferate, Teddy begins to doubt everything -- his memory, his partner, even his own sanity. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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