Take Shelter
Directed by Jeff Nichols
Curtis, a father and husband, is starting to experience bad dreams and hallucinations. Assuming mental illness, he seeks medical help and counseling. However, fearing the worst, he starts building an elaborate and expensive storm shelter in their backyard. This storm shelter threatens to tear apart his family, threatens his sanity and his standing in the community, but he builds it to save his family's life.
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Take Shelter Ratings & Reviews
- old_computerMarch 24, 2026Loser dad decides to build a storm shelter & ignore his parental responsibilities while having a bad vacation day at the beach. This movie was absolutely ridiculous and frustrating to watch. Whatever point this plot was trying to make, it failed miserably.
- cferacoSeptember 22, 2025A backyard bunker, a crumbling mind, and dread that clings harder than herpes.
- ayayronFebruary 23, 2025Trivia: reactions of all the extras in the community dinner scene were genuine and unscripted
- freddagg22September 2, 2025It was ok with the main character trying to make sense of his sanity and doubts. Could it be related to his mothers breakdown...
- ChrisDecember 29, 2024This movie is all the reasons I love movies. The acting, story, and artistry are everything that makes movies so powerful. “This is what it means to not leave”. Samantha Is an extremely benign sentence by itself, but when spoken in this story at that time it becomes one of the most compelling moments I have seen in movies. Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain not having Oscars yet is an embarrassment to the academy.
- Barry HursonMarch 20, 2025Great time watching it, it was a bit slow at times but surprisingly good for me to try to figure out the plot
- SoranIsOnDecember 31, 2024Not much here. No payoff
Take Shelter Trivia
Take Shelter was released on November 10, 2011.
Take Shelter was directed by Jeff Nichols.
Take Shelter has a runtime of 2h.
Take Shelter was produced by Tyler Davidson, Sophia Lin.
Curtis, a father and husband, is starting to experience bad dreams and hallucinations. Assuming mental illness, he seeks medical help and counseling. However, fearing the worst, he starts building an elaborate and expensive storm shelter in their backyard. This storm shelter threatens to tear apart his family, threatens his sanity and his standing in the community, but he builds it to save his family's life.
The key characters in Take Shelter are Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon), Samantha LaForche (Jessica Chastain), Dewart (Shea Whigham).
Take Shelter is rated R.
Take Shelter is a Drama, Thriller, Horror film.
Take Shelter has an audience rating of 8.1 out of 10.
Take Shelter had a budget of $5M.
Take Shelter has made $3.7M at the box office.