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Take Shelter

Kathy Baker (Actor), Jessica Chastain (Actor), Jeff Nichols (Director) Rated:
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3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 4,120 ratings
IMDb7.3/10.0
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Genre Drama, Thriller
Format Closed-captioned, AC-3, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, Color, NTSC, Multiple Formats
Contributor Katy Mixon, Grove Hill Productions, LLC; Hydraulx, Jessica Chastain, Kathy Baker, Sophia Lin, Michael Shannon, Jeff Nichols, Shea Whigham, Tyler Davidson See more
Language English
Runtime 2 hours and 1 minute
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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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The looming presence of Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road) was made for a role like Curtis, the haunted protagonist of Take Shelter. On paper, Curtis would appear to be a normal mid-American husband and father; a construction manager, he has a wife (Jessica Chastain) and a hearing-impaired daughter, and a nice piece of land in tornado country. But, of course, he can't be entirely normal, because he's played by Michael Shannon. So, after suffering nightmares that gradually turn into waking hallucinations, Curtis becomes convinced that a great disaster is coming. His behavior, and his insistence on building out the storm shelter in the backyard, suggests he is either visionary or going out of his mind. This film by Shotgun Stories director Jeff Nichols is all eerie buildup, a series of ominous signs or concerned conversations. Because Shannon is such a formidable and uneasy presence, some of this is intriguing for a while (and Tree of Life star Chastain contributes her strong instincts to the marital scenes), but somehow by the end the whole thing feels more portentous than insightful, like a lofty take on an M. Night Shyamalan project but without Shyamalan's canny storytelling sense. --Robert Horton

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.6 x 5.4 x 7.5 inches; 2.4 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 24203101
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Jeff Nichols
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Closed-captioned, AC-3, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, Color, NTSC, Multiple Formats
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 1 minute
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ February 14, 2012
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Kathy Baker, Jessica Chastain, Katy Mixon, Michael Shannon, Shea Whigham
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ Tyler Davidson, Sophia Lin
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006HGXGWU
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 4,120 ratings

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3.9 out of 5 stars
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I bought this Blu-ray under the impression that it would play on a Region A player. Well, as soon as I received it, I put the disc in my PS4 and it gave me an error message saying that there was a mismatch between the disc and player region codes. The product title clearly says A, B, and C. This is not true. Do not but of you live in the US and don't have a Region free player.
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Matt Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2024
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This film was very well done all the way around. Defiantly worth watching. It has clean content, some strong language, but rated "R" for deep emotional family, social, and mental illness related issues and intense drama. Perfect if you're in the mood for a thought provoking, premonition-style, suspenseful movie with a satisfying ending.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Genuine And Moving
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2021
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The ads and the trailer suggest that this is a movie about an imminent disaster that one man foresees but cannot convince others of. Actually Curtis, a tall working-class husband and father, spends almost no time trying to convince anyone that there is an impending disaster. He works heavy construction and is quite capable in that line. When horrific dreams and waking visions convince him that a natural disaster of biblical proportions is on the way, Curtis simply gets down to business. He takes out a loan, borrows work equipment and expands his meager storm shelter into a full-on survivalist den.

But as Curtis' behavior becomes increasingly erratic he begins to suspect he may be slipping into madness since it's in his family. His mother was institutionalized when he was 10 with paranoid schizophrenia. He skims books from the library on mental disorders and seeks help from his doctor, who recommends a psychiatrist. But the psychiatrist is out of town and it's not doable so he settles for a therapist.

Episodes that challenge Curtis' relationship with his wife Samantha and everyone else in his life keep adding up. I think most viewers know this plot line--good friends and benevolent employers stay with him as long as they can until it's just too much and he loses everything. And that is the plot but it happens in a believable way. And his wife actually does not take the child and leave him.

Curtis waits forever before explaining to his Samantha why he has been doing the crazy doomsday prepping and so forth. He sensibly acknowledges the possibility that he might be going insane ('You know what I come from'). And his wife is sympathetic and understanding. She is also clear about what she needs to have happen to continue with him. Together they navigate the difficult time through sensitivity and communication.

Why put the viewer through this? Why watch a good man lose his job and his friends? It's excruciating. But it's also interesting that Curtis is aware of why this is happening. In fact when he is laying an electrical cable to the shelter and senses his wife approaching from across the lawn he turns in her general direction but keeps his eyes to the ground and says "are you going to leave me?" This kind of intelligence in a movie about working class people without formal education but with plenty of experience and wisdom is appealing.

Midway through it seems clear that this is either a movie about destruction of mental illness shown largely through the experience of the person, Curtis, who is going crazy, or somehow Curtis is not crazy. But before the significant events at the end, what is incredible is that it doesn't matter. So in fact it's a movie about a good family that faces a unique kind of difficulty and through intelligence and trust, and consultation with experts, overcomes these problems.
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Andrew Ellington
5.0 out of 5 stars You can't stop what's coming...
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2012
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I just want to be clear that this review is coming from someone who doesn't `get' Michael Shannon. I don't think he's a good actor. He annoys me. His praised performances, including the Oscar nominated one, have always felt forced and obnoxious and awkward and quite frankly I've never liked him and usually wind up pointing my finger in his direction when explaining the `worst' part of a film.

This film, and his performance inside of it, was amazing.

`Take Shelter' seems to be a very divisive film. The ambiguity that laces so much of the film, especially Shannon's character Curtis, lies at the core of that division. You either embrace all that writer/director Jeff Nichols has to say here, or you label it a joke. Honestly, there are few films that say more about the modern horrors of the struggle to survive quite like `Take Shelter'. With a sharp sense of purpose, this film uses subtle imagery to pinpoint the root of Curtis's madness without every hitting you over the head with it.

You may label my opinion a huge SPOILER, but I don't see it that way since I'm merely stating my interpretation of events, not their actual intent.

For me, `Take Shelter' uses a looming storm to signify the pressing concern of financial instability. Using seeming subliminal shots, Nichols highlights the weight on Curtis's shoulders from his own financial responsibilities and the fact that, as each day passes the eventual collapse of all that he has is going to take over. His daughter has health issues that he must take care of. His wife works hard to preserve a level of sanity in the house, but you can see the weight around her eyes of simply worrying about her future and that of her family. Curtis sees so much on his plate and then, it all starts to unravel. Everyone around him feels like an enemy as he envisions an incoming storm that will devastate and destroy. Through dreams he experiences the pain of losing his daughter through odd means and this, for me, further implicates the idea that his floundering ability to provide for his family is what is aching at the core of Curtis's mental state.

He's slowly going crazy.

Michael Shannon is superb here. Friends of mine had likened his performance to that of Heath Ledger's in `Brokeback Mountain' (every word, a struggle) and I get that. It is so impeccably rendered. The scene where he opens the storm door alone is just "wow". You can see the relief etched with utter confusion all over his face.

HOW CAN THIS NOT BE REAL?

Jessica Chastain has had a banner year, and this is probably her finest performance. I mean, she finds every ounce of emotional compassions here and pushes them forward in the most honest of ways. Nichols works wonders with the air here, creating sharply intensified atmosphere that really keeps the viewer locked into what is going on. That ending is brilliant (I know, so many gripe there but seriously, the ambiguity isn't so hard to cut through it you think about it) and the visuals are impressive. Those storms are eerily reminiscent of our own personal demons.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Curtis is very sorry.
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2024
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The movie follows a small town worker's descent into madness and despair as hallucinations gradually have profound effects on his life. Featuring: Problems with friends, at work, and with his family.
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Ugo Harris
5.0 out of 5 stars Buon film in dvd
Reviewed in Italy on January 19, 2024
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Ho ricevuto il dvd nei tempi indicati e ben impacchettato. Esso corrisponde alla descrizione e soddisfa le mie aspettative.Comprero' ancora da questo venditore.
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cpsteamer
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth watching
Reviewed in Canada on August 16, 2020
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Good movie with great acting by Shannon and Chastain
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Tashkent
5.0 out of 5 stars ¿APOCALIPSIS O ESQUIZOFRENIA?
Reviewed in Spain on August 5, 2018
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Desde luego que es una película hipnótica, cuyo actor protagonista compone un Curtis de gran patetismo, pero no es apocalíptica, al menos en mi interpretación. Hay dos o tres posibles: 1-Al estilo Shyamalan: Curtis está cuerdo, posee unas facultades, desconocidas para él, que le han permitido prever una tormenta descomunal (están en Ohio, tierra, como todo el Medio Oeste, de frecuentes y destructores tornados, recordad que ya tenían un refugio). Ha desafiado la incomprensión y al final se demuestra su razón. No es que haya llegado el Apocalipsis, es una tormenta de enormes dimensiones. 2- Curtis está loco y al final su locura se extiende a su familia. Esto es ridículo médicamente, porque la esquizofrenia no se contagia, aunque un creador puede tomarse esa libertad. 3- La interpretación que suscribo: Curtis está enloqueciendo, la película es la historia de ese proceso, él mismo lo teme, su madre es esquizofrénica, consigue libros, está de acuerdo con ser puesto en tratamiento... La escena final es uno más de sus sueños, con una variación: los siete sueños anteriores fueron violentos, le atacaban su perro, su compañero, su mujer buscaba un cuchillo... ahora su familia está con él apoyándole y esto quizá significa algo para su curación (no soy psiquiatra). Recordemos que si se puede dar una definición de Curtis es "un hombre de familia". Además están en la playa (lejos del refugio, por cierto), lo que no se podían permitir al haber perdido Curtis su trabajo (aunque el médico lo recomendó: un artista deja varias posibilidades abiertas, no es definitivo). De este modo la película comenzaría con un sueño de lluvia aceitosa y terminaría con otro.

Me encantan las películas "de locos". Suponen un desafío para todo gran actor y muchas veces son las mejores de su carrera (hacer de loco convincentemente no es fácil): Shutter Island, Black Swan, Spider, Repulsion, El club de la lucha, Images, Lilith, Tres mujeres o en el cine asiático Dos hermanas, Soy un cyborg, Marebito, Kotoko... figuran entre mis preferidas. No así Una mente maravillosa, producto que parece salido de la factoría Disney.

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5.0 out of 5 stars TAKE SHELTER : LE MEILLEUR FILM DE 2012
Reviewed in France on August 17, 2018
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Beaucoup de commentaires déjà pour ce film de 2012 mais je n'ai acheté le DVD que maintenant en 2018. Avant ses autres oeuvres majeures que sont MUD et MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, JEFF NICHOLS nous propose ce film splendide dont il parle avec toute son intelligence de cinéaste dans les bonus. On y apprend notamment qu'il a choisi JESSICA CHASTAIN sur les conseils de TERENCE MALICK qui l'avait fait tourner dans THE TREE OF LIFE. L'interview de NICHOLS nous montre le degré d'exigence que celui ci s'impose pour réaliser ses films et c'est vraiment passionnant de prendre cette courte master class. L'histoire du film est bien connue et nous entraine dans les tourments d'un homme angoissé en proie à des cauchemars qui impactent sa vie de couple et professionnelle sous forme de visions, d'hallucinations, de comportements singuliers avec comme thème récurrent les orages, les tempêtes et autres événements climatiques. La scène finale, énigmatique au possible, nous est expliquée par JEFF NICHOLS, cette scène ayant été d'ailleurs tournée au bord du lac MICHIGAN et non au bord de l'océan (effets spéciaux garantis). Une très grande leçon de cinéma qui préfigure les autres grands films qu'il réalisera par la suite.
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Sean Hornby
5.0 out of 5 stars Slow (e)motion.........
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 10, 2013
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I can only describe this film as being somewhat akin to what an avalanche in slow motion must feel like, a rolling beast with heavy acting, uncomfortable silences and thousand yard stares. It's a film that has a number of different threads which have been heavily documented by some of our other reviewers. Mental Illness appears to be the underlying theme that holds this haunting film together. It's a story about doubt, belief, and relationships. How far would you be willing to go to protect those you love from something that appears to be grounded in nothing more than your psyche?

This film is NOT a party film, if you've a few mates around for Doritos and a few beers then I'd give this film a swerve. And, if your frame of mind is a tad tender from a bad day in the office, a break up etc then save this film for a time when you want a thought provoking and insightful drama that will perhaps make you question your own moral values and outlooks on others.

You'll find a wide spectrum of reviews for this film on amazon, I personally think that when a film has the 'Marmite Factor' then it's worth exploring further, better to be a swing of the pendulum than to be forever middle of the road.
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