Archive for February 20th, 2010

Short Take: Intelligent and gripping

Director: Martin Scorsese (The Departed)

Screenwriter: Laeta Kalogridis (Alexander), Dennis Lehane (novel)

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio (Revolutionary Road), Mark Ruffalo (Zodiac), Ben Kingsley (The Wackness), Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain), Max von Sydow (Minority Report)

Length: 2h 18m

Synopsis: It’s 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) is assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a patient at Shutter Island, which is a mental hospital for the criminally insane. Paired with a new partner named Chuck (Ruffalo), the two are convinced that those at the asylum are not telling them everything they need to know. A conspiracy seems like the most logical explanation for what has occurred, but why such a conspiracy would exist baffles them. The answers they find turn out to be the kind that they’d rather not know. Read the rest of this entry »