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Take Shelter (2011)

Michael Shannon , Jessica Chastain , Jeff Nichols  |  R |  DVD
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (197 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Tova Stewart, Katy Mixon
  • Directors: Jeff Nichols
  • Writers: Jeff Nichols
  • Producers: Adam Wilkins, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Chris Perot, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Colin Strause
  • Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English, French
  • Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: February 14, 2012
  • Run Time: 120 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (197 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B006HGXGWU
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,792 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Take Shelter" on IMDb

Special Features

Commentary with Jeff Nichols & Michael Shannon
Behind the Scenes of Take Shelter
Q&A with Michael Shannon & Shea Whigham
Better Safe Than Sorry

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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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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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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece March 8, 2012
Format:Amazon Instant Video
Jeff Nichols and Michael Shannon have accomplished a portrait of paranoid schizophrenia which is the most accurate (to those who have known these sufferers) to date with the exception of a far bleaker film: Clean, Shaven (The Criterion Collection).

The difference here is that Nichols wants to show how deeply linked the hallucinations, dreams and daily disturbances of a schizophrenic are to daily reality, in particular to our global feeling that the next shoe might drop at any time. If anyone watching imagines that Curtis' behavior is unrealistic or that Shannon's natural ability to be eccentric and frightening are exaggerations of what these people (and their loved ones) go through, think again. Having worked with the homeless/mentally ill (unfortunately a lot of men and women like Curtis simply fall through the cracks) I have always made it a policy to keep apocalyptic material AWAY from them. The miracle Nichols pulls off here is to reflect so expertly what happens when these symptoms first start developing through Curtis' mind.

A blue collar construction worker and generally an average man (Officer Van Alden from Boardwalk Empire: The Complete First Season is absent here) Curtis has a wonderful wife (Jessica Chastain who resembles Mia Farrow to an almost disturbing degree) and a sweet little girl who is handicapped (Tova Stewart). His buddy on the construction site (Shea Wigham)is the first one to really notice that something's just not right with our man.
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44 of 54 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Portrait in Courage December 19, 2011
Format:DVD
"Take Shelter" is a movie about courage - not physical courage, which is so easy to film, but emotional courage, a much more difficult kind of courage. That we wonder if our protagonist is really courageous or just crazy adds dimension and depth as Michael Shannon and the rest of the ensemble confront choices and chances, trust and doubt, while trying to keep their precariously comfortable lives from toppling into an abyss.

Superb storytelling with an especially strong an subtle performance from Shannon.
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47 of 59 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Seer or Mentally Ill? February 12, 2012
Format:DVD
There is a lot of food for thought in this movie. In prior times, a man like Curtis would not be assumed to be mentally ill. The fact that he is having visions would be respected by both the bible and in native folk lore as he would be seen as a possible prophet in their midst. Curtis's mother has been in long time care since she was diagnosed as a schizophrenic. However, when we meet her, the question is really open as to her as well. We live in an age where science has decreed that things like portents, omens, seers, prophets and the like are impossible. That anyone who deals in this matter is just plain loco.

Curtis begins turning his storm shelter into more of an atomic bomb like shelter and runs into one person after another who is teed off at him, from his employer to his colleague to his wife. Yet he persists. What he sees is supported by reports which have been filed around catastrophes. For example, when tidal waves come in, birds do go crazy. They swarm and take off and some, in their hurry to get out, drop dead from the sky to the ground.

So the big question is whether Curtis is having a psychotic break with reality or if he is a seer who feels and sees a disaster coming. I know most people are going with the mental illness interpretation. Personally, I think since this this kind of person has been chronicled for thousands of years that it is possible that such a person could exist but does not want to broadcast his visions for precisely the reason that people will think he is insane.

Michael Shannon as Curtis and Jessica Chastain as his wife are both terrific.

One caution about this movie: it is very slow. If you are looking for a quick paced movie, this is not it.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Prophet or Lunatic? May 11, 2012
Format:DVD
Written and directed by Jeff Nichols, TAKE SHELTER is a movie about a man who has terrifying visions who actually might be a prophet, but whom no one believes because modern science says it can't be so. The film stars Michael Shannon as Curtis. Curtis has a high-paying job that includes excellent health benefits. He's married to his beautiful wife Samantha (Jessica Chastain). They have one child, a daughter named Hannah, who is deaf. Thanks to the health insurance through Curtis' job, Hannah is eligible for a cochlear implant to restore part of her hearing. At the beginning of the film, Curtis' best friend and co-worker, Dewart (Shea Whigham) tells Curtis something to the effect that he's got a great life.

Then Curtis starts having nightmares. In some ways the dreams are more vivid than anything he has experienced in real life. In the dreams, he sees a storm of Apocalyptical proportions occur. People go crazy and someone is always chasing either him or his family. The dreams become more and more intense. So much so, that Curtis begins fixing up the old storm shelter in the backyard. As he does so, the dreams begin happening while he is awake and at work: he begins seeing flocks of birds and massive bolts of lightning that no one else can see, he feels drops of rain and gusts of wind that no one else can feel, and he hears the screams of his daughter as she's taken away by people who don't even exist. Curtis' mother is a schizophrenic and he fears that he might be suffering from the same disease. Is Curtis mentally unstable or is he a modern-day prophet?

TAKE SHELTER is an incredibly well-written film that has some amazing acting.
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4.0 out of 5 stars ...on the condition of the responsible male as head of family before...
A young film auteur, Mr. Nichols, gets married and witnesses the beginning of the Crisis in 2008. Being a good artist, he locks in on the theme of his next film, the condition of... Read more
Published 2 days ago by fCh
5.0 out of 5 stars Great concept
Simple, clean, exciting, mysterious, and very well acted. The cast is brilliant! Jeff Nichols is a fantastic writer-director. His new film Mud is also very well done.
Published 4 days ago by Directionline
5.0 out of 5 stars dvd
I seen this on tv and wanted too buy this because he knew that something was wrong with him. and he went too get help
but he should of told his wife so that she can help him.
Published 7 days ago by t
5.0 out of 5 stars I love this show
I loved this show I had waited so long to have it available and was not the least bit disappointed a must buy for anyone
Published 11 days ago by Denise Conley
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, simply powerful
Probably one of the best movies made in the last decade.
Classic movie of an unaware seer and those that keep their
heads in the sand and don't listen. Read more
Published 12 days ago by TX Raven
5.0 out of 5 stars An incredible film, with outstanding performances by all...
Take Shelter's director, Jeff Nichols, is a filmmaker of considerable skill and talent. The film's story is profound overall and the process of its reveal is sublime. Read more
Published 19 days ago by Bridget Irish
5.0 out of 5 stars A quiet masterpiece.
Splendid performances, eerie and disturbing but highly intelligent psycho-drama with an almost metaphysical tilt. Not to be missed. As fine a film as you may see this year.
Published 27 days ago by Richard S. Moore
3.0 out of 5 stars It's not 'Mud"
We bought the video because we loved "Mud," the new movie by the same director, Jeff Nichols. Read more
Published 1 month ago by S. Tagliarino
5.0 out of 5 stars take shelter
a very good movie the bluray is excellent all the actors in this movie are very good the special afects are excellent you will enjoy this movie.
Published 1 month ago by vernon egolf
2.0 out of 5 stars quick, take shelter from a boring movie!
Take Shelter is about a small town Ohio man who strongly believes something bad is going to happen to him. Read more
Published 1 month ago by B. E Jackson
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