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Take Shelter

Take Shelter

7,1 /10 (1,992 Votes)
2011 EN 120 min

Overview

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

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Release date

30/09/2011

Votes

1,992

Popularity

2.8

Far away from the cruel world.

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

120 min

Budget

$5,000,000

Revenue

$3,741,098

Original Soundtrack

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Jack

Jack

2020-05-16

⭐ 6

I do love slow-paced thriller films and this is exactly that. Having said that, there is something that makes me uneasy about the ending. It is up to so many interpretations that the writer / director of the film didn’t know himself how to end otherwise a close-to-brilliant story with a decent acting. Would I watch it again? Possibly. Would I make my friends watch it? I guess so.

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griggs79

griggs79

2025-03-24

⭐ 7

_Take Shelter’s_ a slow burn, but it gets under your skin. Shannon’s great—properly intense—and there’s loads to chew on about fear, family, and mental health. Bit heavy-handed at times, and it drags in spots

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2025-06-13

⭐ 7

The family “LaForche” live in a remote Ohio backwater where mother “Samantha” (Jessica Chastain) looks after their deaf daughter “Hannah” (Tova Stewart) whilst dad “Curtis” (Michael Shannon) works for a local drilling outfit. Recently, though, things have become a bit strained as he has been having fairly graphic and disturbing nightmares. These foretell of the mother of all storms sweeping all before it before something ever more ghastly occurs. As these dreams intensify, he begins to struggle determining what is real and what isn’t. Are these hallucinations or is he perhaps seeing an unwelco…

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