Take Shelter is a 2011 American drama-thriller film starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain. The film is written and directed by Jeff Nichols. 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. In a small town in Ohio, Curtis LaForche has apocalyptic dreams of being harmed by people close to him, but he keeps them from his wife Samantha and their deaf daughter Hannah . He focuses on building a storm shelter in his backyard, but the strange behavior strains his relationship with his... family. Curtis goes to see a counselor at a free clinic, with whom he talks about his family's psychological history. His mother suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, which set on at about the same age that Curtis is now. Curtis borrows some equipment from his job, including a backhoe, and gets a home improvement loan to start building the shelter in his backyard, all without notifying his wife. When his wife discovers him working on the project, she grows angry.
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| Release date: | January 24, 2011 |
| Directed by: | Jeff Nichols |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 120 Minutes |
| Producer: | Tyler Davidson, Sophia Lin |
| Editor: | Parke Gregg |
| Music by: | David Wingo |
| Cinematography: | Adam Stone |
| Screenplay by: | Jeff Nichols |
| Genre: | Thriller |