Take Shelter Page #5

Synopsis: Curtis, a father and husband, is starting to experience bad dreams and hallucinations. Assuming mental illness, he seeks medical help and counseling. However, fearing the worst, he starts building an elaborate and expensive storm shelter in their backyard. This storm shelter threatens to tear apart his family, threatens his sanity and his standing in the community, but he builds it to save his family's life.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Jeff Nichols
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  42 wins & 36 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
85
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
R
Year:
2011
120 min
$1,600,000
Website
519 Views


Could you move Hannah back?

It's fine.

Do you have any vacation time

that you can use?

I don't have a job right now.

Well, I know that times are hard,

but I think it's really important

for you to separate yourself

from that storm shelter.

I think you need to break away

from it for a while.

We can start you on some medication

that I think will help,

but that action alone would mean a lot.

We usually go on a trip

to Myrtle Beach each summer.

We were gonna go this month.

I think that would be okay

if we start the medication now.

And it would give you all some time

to prepare as a family.

But I want to be clear,

when Curtis gets back,

he'll need to take more time than that.

What does that mean?

I mean that he'll need

hands-on therapy at a real facility.

You mean I have to leave my family?

I think you need to

seriously commit to some treatment.

Hey...

Good, huh?

Okay.

There we go.

Let's make a river.

Good. Yeah.

We put a top on it.

What is it, honey?

What?

Sam.

Okay.

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Jeff Nichols

Jeff Nichols is an American film director and screenwriter from Little Rock, Arkansas. He studied filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Nichols has directed Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter, Mud and Midnight Special. more…

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