Shutter Island Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Genres: Thriller
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Martin_Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up for a fourth time for this adaptation of -Shutter Island, a novel by Dennis_Lehane (Mystic_River). The film opens in 1954 as World War II veteran and current federal marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner, Chuck (Mark_Ruffalo), ferry to Shutter Island, a water-bound mental hospital housing the criminally insane. They have been asked to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando (Emily_Mortimer), a patient admitted to the asylum after she murdered her three children. As Teddy quizzes Dr. Cawley (Ben_Kingsley), the head of the institution, he begins to suspect that the authorities in charge might not be giving him the whole truth, and that a terrible fate may befall all the patients in the spooky Ward C -- a unit devoted to the most heinous of the hospital's inmates. Complicating matters further, Teddy has a secret of his own -- the arsonist who murdered his wife is incarcerated on Shutter Island. Driven to confront his wife's killer, and stranded on the island because of a hurricane, Teddy must unravel the secrets of the eerie place before succumbing to his own madness. Max von Sydow, Emily_Mortimer, Michelle_Williams, Patricia_Clarkson, and Jackie_Earle_Haley round out the supporting cast. Perry Seibert, Rovi
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