Shutter Island (film)

Shutter Island is a 2010 American neonoir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese. The film is based on Dennis Lehanes 2003 novel of the same name. Production started in March 2008. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as U.S. Marshal Edward Teddy Daniels, who is investigating a psychiatric facility on Shutter Island. Positively reviewed by critics, the film grossed over 128 million in its initial domestic theater release, as well as an additional 166 million internationally. Shutter Island was originally slated to be released on October 2, 2009, but Paramount Pictures delayed it until February 19, 2010.

In 1954, two U.S. Marshals Edward Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule travel to the Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island located in Boston Harbor. They are investigating the disappearance of patient Rachel Solando who was incarcerated for drowning her three children. Their only clue is a note left by Solando The law ofwho is 67? They arrive just before a storm arrives, preventing their return to the mainland for a few days.Daniels and Aule find the staff confrontational Dr. John Cawley, the lead psychiatrist, refuses to turn over records, and they learn that Solandos doctor, Dr. Lester Sheehan, had left on vacation after her disappearance. Though they are given access to the hospital, they are told Ward C is off limits, while the lighthouse has already been searched. One patient, during interrogation, secretly writes RUN in Daniels notepad. Daniels starts to have migraine headaches from the hospitals atmosphere, and experiences waking visions of his involvement in the Dachau liberation reprisals and disturbing dreams of his wife, Dolores Chanal, who was killed in a fire set by Andrew Laeddis, a local arsonist. In one dream, Chanal tells Daniels that Solando is still on the island, as well as Laeddis, who also went missing months ago. Daniels later explains to Aule that locating Laeddis was an ulterior motive for taking the case. ........

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