Take Shelter
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jeff Nichols
Michael Shannon
Jessica Chastain
Shea Whigham
Katy Mixon
Kathy Baker
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Curtis LaForche lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha and six-year-old daughter Hannah, who is deaf. Curtis makes a modest living as a crew chief for a sand-mining company. Samantha is a stay-at-home mother and part-time seamstress who supplements their income by selling handmade wares at the flea market each weekend. Money is tight, and navigating Hannah's healthcare and special needs education is a constant struggle. Despite that, Curtis and Samantha are very much in love and their family is a happy one. Then Curtis begins having terrifying dreams about an encroaching, apocalyptic storm. He chooses to keep the disturbance to himself, channeling his anxiety into the obsessive building of a storm shelter in their backyard. His seemingly inexplicable behavior concerns and confounds Samantha, and provokes intolerance among co-workers, friends and neighbors. But the resulting strain on his marriage and tension within the community doesn't compare to Curtis' private fear of what his dreams may truly signify. Faced with the proposition that his disturbing visions signal disaster of one kind or another, Curtis confides in Samantha, testing the power of their bond against the highest possible stakes.
Director
Jeff Nichols
Cast
Michael Shannon
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Jessica Chastain
Shea Whigham
Katy Mixon
Kathy Baker
Ray Mckinnon
Lisa Gay Hamilton
Robert Longstreet
Tova Stewart
Natasha Randall
Ron Kennard
Scott Knisley
Heather Caldwell
Sheila Hullihen
John Kloock
Marianna Alacchi
Jacque Jovic
Bob Maines
Charles Moore
Pete Ferry
Molly Mcginnis
Angie Marino-smith
Isabelle Smith
Tina Stump
Ken Strunk
Maryann Nagel
Hailee Dickens
Guy Van Swearingen
William Alexander
Joanna Tyler
Stuart Greer
Jake Lockwood
Kim Hendrickson
Bart Flynn
Nick Koesters
Jeffrey Grover
Jonathan Rudak
Crew
Marco Alicea
Lainie Anderson
Chad Ball
Matt Cahill
Hal Carlton-ford
Joshua Chase
Daniel Chavez
Jean Paul Chreky
Carol Compton
Dylan Conrad
Carolyn Corzine
John Countryman
Schuylar Croom
Tyler Davidson
Cris Doss
Nicholas Elwell
Nick Evert
Andrew Fenske
Rick Fike
William Files
Kevin Flanigan
J T Fraser
Scott Gardner
Steven Gonzales
Sarah Green
Parke Gregg
Parke Gregg
Parke Gregg
Ben Haehn
Lyman Hardy
Lyman Hardy
Lyman Hardy
Jonathan M Hodes
Timmy Hoffman
Amelia Host
Patrick Jackson
Patrick Jackson
Michael Johnson
Timothy Johnson
Andy Kasubienski
Brian Kavanaugh-jones
Chad Keith
Jennifer Klide
Eric Kohler
Christos Konstantakopoulos
Julia Lallas
Michael Levine
Chuck Lewis
Sophia Lin
Francis Link
Lia Lockert
Chance Madison
Karen Malecki
Joe Malina
Kevin Martt
Stephen Mcbride
Craig Mckinstry
Tony Meagher
Kenneth Neil Moore
Harry Nangle
Carmen Navis
Ben Nichols
Ben Nichols
Jeff Nichols
Chris Perot
Cosmo Pfeil
Brandon Proctor
Ryan Putz
Lillian Pyles
David Regan
Ryan Reynolds
Richard Rothfeld
Michael Roy
Bill Rudolph
Robert Ruggeri
Melissa Ryant
Darius Shahmir
Clinton Smith
Adam Stone
Colin Strause
Greg Strause
Leonard Suwalski
Joe Thompson
Sam Tirado
John Torrijos
Allison Turrell
Chris Wells
Adam Wilkins
Adam Willis
David Wingo
Matt Zboyovski
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Miscellaneous Notes
Limited Release in United States Fall September 30, 2011
Released in United States on Video February 14, 2012
Limited Release in United States Fall September 30, 2011 (Los Angeles & New York City)
Released in United States on Video February 14, 2012
Released in United States 2011
Released in United States 2011 (U.S. Dramatic Competition)