We’ve been keeping you up to date with info on the Sundance Film Festival’s genre entries, so here’s another one: TAKE SHELTER, which stars one of the more interesting character actors working today, Michael Shannon. It comes from director Jeff Nichols, who helmed the groovy indie SHOTGUN STORIES (which also starred Shannon) and it seems to be a psychological thriller in the midst of the apocalypse. We can dig it!
The lowdown: Curtis LaForche lives in a small town in Ohio with his wife, Samantha, and daughter, Hannah, a six-year-old deaf girl. When Curtis begins to have terrifying dreams, he keeps the visions to himself, channeling his anxiety into obsessively building a storm shelter in his backyard. His seemingly inexplicable behavior concerns and confounds those closest to him, but the resulting strain on his marriage and tension within his community can’t compare with Curtis’s privately held fear of what his dreams may truly signify.
TAKE SHELTER, which also stars Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Katy Mixon, Kathy Baker and Ray McKinnon, will have its Sundance premiere on Monday, January 23rd. For info on all of its screenings, head on over HERE.
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