Shutter Island (2010) on Netflix
U.S. Marshals Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule cross to Shutter Island to investigate a patient's disappearance from its hospital for the criminally insane. Daniels has his own reason for the trip.
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Plot summary
In 1954, Deputy U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and Chuck Aule, his new partner, take a ferry through Boston Harbor to Shutter Island, home to Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane. A patient named Rachel Solando, who drowned her three children, vanished from her room the night before. Deputy Warden McPherson takes the marshals' sidearms at the gate, and Dr. John Cawley, the hospital's senior psychiatrist, and his colleague Dr. Jerimiah Naehring offer the two men little help. Teddy asks for staff personnel files and is turned down. He has a private aim in the case: to find Andrew Laeddis, the man he blames for the fire that killed his wife, Dolores. Migraines, memories of liberating Dachau, and dreams of Dolores trouble him as a storm closes in.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Shutter Island (2010)
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- Dennis Lehane's inspiration for the hospital and island setting was Long Island in Boston Harbor, which he had visited as a child with his uncle and family during the blizzard of 1978.
- Shutter Island was mainly filmed in Massachusetts, and old industrial buildings in Taunton's Whittenton Mills Complex stood in for the Dachau concentration camp in the World War II flashback scenes.
- The film has no original score. Instead, Scorsese's longtime collaborator Robbie Robertson created an ensemble of previously recorded material to use in it.
