Plot Summary
Following his acclaimed debut, Shotgun Stories, writer/director Jeff Nichols reteams with actor Michael Shannon to create a haunting tale that will creep under your skin and expose your darkest fears. Curtis LaForche lives in a small town in Ohio with his wife, Samantha, and daughter, Hannah, a six-year-old deaf girl. When Curtis begins to have terrifying dreams, he keeps the visions to himself, channeling his anxiety into obsessively building a storm shelter in his backyard. His seemingly inexplicable behavior concerns and confounds those closest to him, but the resulting strain on his marriage and tension within his community can’t compare with Curtis’s privately held fear of what his dreams may truly signify. Take Shelter features fully realized characters crumbling under the weight of real-life problems. Using tone and atmosphere to chilling effect, Nichols crafts a powerful psychological thriller that is a disturbing tale for our times.
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Movie Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
TOMATOMETER
92%- Reviews Counted: 146
- Fresh: 135
- Rotten: 11
- Average Rating: 8.0/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: A hallucinatory thriller anchored by a deeply resonant sense of unease.
Fresh: The movie makes you uncomfortable, but in a good way. Nichols has turned the current moment of American unease into a powerful metaphor.
Fresh: The chilling genius of "Take Shelter'' isn't that the threat is never specified but that it doesn't need to be.
Fresh: Taut, unsettling, haunting and powerful, "Take Shelter" stars Michael Shannon in a shattering performance as a man caught up in forces beyond his control.
Customer Reviews
Not my cup of tea
I rented this movie based solely on the reviews. Unfortunately I found it a little too dark and the storyline frustrating. Not my cup of tea.
Great Movie
Michael Shannon is at his best as a man plagued by apocalyptic dreams that start to bleed into his everyday life. It's one of the best films of the year with a ending that will leave you breathless
Something is horribly wrong, and it's palpable in this flick
This is the movie that blew me away when it Premiered at Sundance last year. For anyone that thinks things are askance in the world, this movie will tap tap tap on that nerve and pull you in. With a real backdrop of all environment, political unrest and other calamities that bombard us daily via the news and social media, this movie takes what we are currently experiencing in our world and weaves that effectively into the movie. It's a year later from when I saw this, and it is still haunting. Must See!
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- $14.99
- Genre: Drama
- Released: 2011
- © 2011 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved.
