Drama set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding nearby.
It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.
Written by alfiehitchie
Columbia first optioned the film rights to Dennis Lehane's novel in 2003 when it was first published but after many delays, the rights relapsed back to the author.
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Goofs
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers):
After the storm blows out the electricity, Daniels comments about the "electronics" being knocked out. The electrical systems used to containing the patients likely had no "electronics", just electrical switches, solenoids, and other parts.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Teddy Daniels:
Pull yourself together, Teddy. Pull yourself together. See more »
"UAXUCTUM: THE LEGEND OF THE MAYAN CITY WHICH THEY THEMSELVES DESTROYED FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS"
(1966) Written by Giacinto Scelsi Performed by The Vienna Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (as Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra) Courtesy of Mode Records
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