Shutter Island

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Leonardo DiCaprio as Edward “Teddy” Daniels, who is later revealed to be Andrew Laeddis, a US Marshal who shot his wife two years previously.
• Mark Ruffalo as Chuck Aule, who is later revealed to be Dr. Lester Sheehan, Teddy’s primary psychiatrist.
• Ben Kingsley as Dr. John Cawley, a senior psychiatrist at the hospital, who also treats Teddy.
• Max von Sydow as Dr. Naehring, a psychiatrist at the hospital helping in the role-play with Teddy.
• Michelle Williams as Dolores Chanal, Teddy’s manic-depressive wife, who set fire to their apartment and later drowned their three children.
• Emily Mortimer as Rachel 1, who admits to drowning her children and thinks Teddy is her husband, but is later revealed to be a nurse helping in the role-play.
• Patricia Clarkson as Rachel 2, whom Teddy meets in a cave, and who presents herself as the real Rachel and affirms his conspiracies about the hospital, but who is later revealed as a figment of his imagination.
• Jackie Earle Haley as George Noyce, a patient in Ward C who is later revealed to have been violently beaten by Teddy two weeks earlier.
• Ted Levine as Warden, who later tells Teddy that he is the most violent man on the island.
• John Carroll Lynch as Deputy Warden McPherson.
• Joseph Sikora as Glen Miga.
• Elias Koteas as Laeddis, the fictional arsonist whom Teddy invented, and who he believes killed Dolores.
• Robin Bartlett as Bridget Kearns.
• Christopher Denham as Peter Breene.
• Curtiss Cook as Trey Washington.

Storyline:

In 1954, up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston’s Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He’s been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he thinks he’s 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 shrewd investigating 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 multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything – his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.

About Movie:

Shutter Island is an American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese. It is adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from the 2003 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, with Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow and Michelle Williams in supporting roles.

Production began on March 6, 2008, only about 6 weeks after Michelle Williams’ former partner Heath Ledger unexpectedly died. Shutter Island was mainly filmed in Massachusetts, with Taunton being the location for the World War II flashback scenes. Filming ended on July 2, 2008.

Released on February 19, 2010, Shutter Island received generally positive reviews from critics, was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2010, and grossed $295 million worldwide. The film is also noted for its soundtrack, which prominently used classical music, such as that of Gustav Mahler, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, John Cage, Ingram Marshall, and Max Richter.

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