Take Shelter (2011) on Netflix
Curtis LaForche is troubled by apocalyptic dreams and hallucinations. He keeps them from Samantha, his wife, and from Hannah, their deaf daughter, while enlarging the backyard storm shelter.
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- IMDb7.3/10117,519 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes92%
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Plot summary
Curtis LaForche works in construction in LaGrange, Ohio. He and his wife Samantha are raising Hannah, their daughter, who is deaf. Apocalyptic dreams and hallucinations trouble him: rain the color of motor oil, menacing black birds, harm at the hands of people close to him. His mother, Sarah, has paranoid schizophrenia, which appeared when she was about his age, and he fears he may have the same disorder. Sleepless, he visits a counselor at a free clinic and speaks about his family's psychological history. He becomes fixated on the storm shelter in the yard, borrowing his employer's heavy equipment and taking out a home improvement loan for the work, without telling Samantha.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Take Shelter (2011)
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- Take Shelter won the 50th Critics' Week Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and shared the Fipresci award from the International Federation of Film Critics with Le Havre and The Minister, then beat 13 other contenders to win the grand prize at the 37th Deauville American Film Festival.
- Five years after the film's release, Nichols told Creative Screenwriting that he had a very strict idea of what the end of Take Shelter was and knows exactly what happens, and that it is fascinating to see people respond to it in their own ways.
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Nichols said that whether the final vision is a dream or real does not matter; what counts is that the two characters look at each other and connect, both seeing it, so that a film about marriage, commitment and communication ends with them on the same page again.
