Take Shelter
Take Shelter is a 2011 American dramathriller film written and directed by Jeff Nichols and starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain. Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father Shannon questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. It was nominated for four Saturn Awards including Best Horror or Thriller Film and Best Actress for Chastain, and won Best Writing for Nichols and Best Actor for Shannon.
In order to get the expanded storm shelter done, Curtis breaks work rules by using equipment e.g., a backhoe from his construction job at his house, and gets a home improvement loan he can ill afford to start building the shelter all without telling his wife. Sam becomes angry when she discovers the project. After Curtis takes more than the prescribed dose of a sedative and suffers a seizure, Sam calls an ambulance. He recovers, then finally explains the truth to her, including his dreams.Curtis begins to miss more work, causing tensions with his boss, as he and Sam make preparations for the cochlear implant surgery Hannah is to undergo in six weeks time. Having been informed of the borrowed work equipment, Curtiss boss fires him at the house and gives him only two weeks worth of medical insurance benefits, after placing Dewart Shea Whigham, the close friend and coworker whom Curtis asked to help him start construction of the shelter, on two weeks unpaid administrative leave. ........
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