Shutter Island ( film ) - wikipedia Shutter Island ( film ) Shutter Island Theatrical release poster Directed by Martin Scorsese Produced by Mike Medavoy Arnold W. Messer Bradley J. Fischer Martin Scorsese Screenplay by Laeta Kalogridis Based on Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane Starring Leonardo DiCaprio Mark Ruffalo Ben Kingsley Michelle Williams Emily Mortimer Patricia Clarkson Max von Sydow Cinematography Robert Richardson Edited by Thelma Schoonmaker Production company Phoenix Pictures Appian Way Productions Distributed by Paramount Pictures Release date February 13, 2010 ( 2010 - 02 - 13 ) ( Berlin International Film Festival ) February 19, 2010 ( 2010 - 02 - 19 ) ( United States ) Running time 138 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $80 million Box office $294.8 million Shutter Island is a 2010 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Laeta Kalogridis, based on Dennis Lehane 's 2003 novel of the same name. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as U.S. Marshal Edward `` Teddy '' Daniels who is investigating a psychiatric facility on Shutter Island after one of the patients goes missing. Mark Ruffalo plays his partner officer, Ben Kingsley is the facility 's lead psychiatrist, and Michelle Williams is Daniels ' wife. The film received generally favorable reviews from critics and grossed over $294 million at the box office. Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Music 5 Genre 6 Release 6.1 Critical reception 6.2 Box office 6.3 Home media 7 References 8 External links Plot In 1954, U.S. Marshals Edward `` Teddy '' Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule travel to the Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island in Boston Harbor. They are investigating the disappearance of patient Rachel Solando, who was incarcerated for drowning her three children. Their only clue is a cryptic note found hidden in Solando 's room : `` The law of 4 ; who is 67 ? '' They arrive just before a storm hits, preventing their return to the mainland for a few days. Daniels and Aule find the staff confrontational. Dr. John Cawley, the lead psychiatrist, refuses to turn over records, and they learn that Solando 's doctor Lester Sheehan left the island on vacation immediately after Solando disappeared. They are given access to the hospital, but they are told that Ward C is off limits and that the lighthouse has already been searched. While being interviewed, one patient secretly writes the word `` RUN '' in Daniels ' notepad. Daniels starts to have migraine headaches from the hospital 's atmosphere and experiences waking visions of his involvement in the Dachau liberation reprisals. He has disturbing dreams of his wife Dolores Chanal, who was killed in a fire set by a local arsonist named Andrew Laeddis. In one instance, she tells him that Solando is still on the island somewhere -- as is Laeddis, who everyone claims was never there to begin with. Daniels later explains to Aule that locating Laeddis was an ulterior personal motive for taking the case. During their investigation, Daniels and Aule find that Solando has abruptly resurfaced with no explanation as to her former whereabouts or how she escaped. This prompts Daniels to break into the restricted Ward C. There he encounters George Noyce, a patient in solitary confinement. Noyce warns him that the doctors are performing questionable experiments on the patients, some of whom are taken to the lighthouse to be lobotomized. Noyce warns Daniels that everyone else on the island is playing an elaborate game specifically designed for Daniels -- including his partner Aule. Daniels regroups with Aule and is determined to investigate the lighthouse. They become separated while climbing the cliffs toward it, and Daniels later sees what he believes to be Aule 's body on the rocks below. By the time he climbs down, however, the body has disappeared, but he finds a cave where he discovers a woman in hiding who claims to be the real Rachel Solando. She states that she is a former psychiatrist at the hospital who discovered the experiments with psychotropic medication and trans - orbital lobotomy in an attempt to develop mind control techniques. Before she could report her findings to the authorities, however, she was forcibly committed to Ashecliffe as a patient. Daniels returns to the hospital, but finds no evidence of Aule ever being there. Daniels is convinced that Aule was taken to the lighthouse ; he breaks into it only to discover Cawley calmly waiting there for him. Cawley explains that Daniels is actually Andrew Laeddis, their `` most dangerous patient '' incarcerated in Ward C for murdering his manic depressive wife Dolores Chanal after she drowned their children. Edward Daniels and Rachel Solando are anagrams of Andrew Laeddis and Dolores Chanal ; furthermore, the little girl from Laeddis ' recurring dreams is his daughter Rachel. According to Cawley, the events of the past several days have been designed to break Laeddis ' conspiracy - laden insanity by allowing him to play out the role of Daniels. The hospital staff were part of the test, including Dr. Sheehan posing as Aule and a nurse posing as Rachel Solando. The migraines that Laeddis suffered were withdrawal symptoms from his medication, as were the hallucinations of the `` real Rachel Solando ''. Overwhelmed, Laeddis faints. Laeddis awakens in the hospital under watch of Cawley and Sheehan. When questioned, he tells the truth in a coherent manner, which satisfies the doctors as a sign of progression. Nevertheless, Cawley notes that they had achieved this state nine months before but Laeddis had quickly regressed, and further warns that this will be his last chance to redeem himself. Some time later, Laeddis relaxes on the hospital grounds with Dr. Sheehan, but he calls him `` Chuck '' and says that they need to leave the island. Sheehan shakes his head to an observing Cawley, who gestures to the orderlies towards Laeddis. Laeddis asks Dr. Sheehan if it is worse to live as a monster or die as a good man, and is then led away by the orderlies ; this question leaves the audience to wonder whether Laeddis pretended to have relapsed because he wished to be lobotomized. Cast Leonardo DiCaprio as Edward `` Teddy '' Daniels Mark Ruffalo as Chuck Aule / Lester Sheehan Ben Kingsley as Dr. John Cawley Max von Sydow as Dr. Jeremiah Naehring Michelle Williams as Dolores Chanal Emily Mortimer as Rachel Solando Patricia Clarkson as Dr. Rachel Solando Jackie Earle Haley as George Noyce Ted Levine as Warden John Carroll Lynch as Deputy Warden McPherson Elias Koteas as Andrew Laeddis Ruby Jerins as Little Girl Robin Bartlett as Bridget Kearns Christopher Denham as Peter Breene Production The rights to Dennis Lehane 's novel Shutter Island were first optioned to Columbia Pictures in 2003. Columbia did not act on the option and it lapsed back to Lehane who sold it to Phoenix Pictures. Phoenix hired Laeta Kalogridis and together they developed the film for a year. Director Martin Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio were both attracted to the project. Production began on March 6, 2008. Lehane 's inspiration for the hospital and island setting was Long Island in Boston Harbor, which he had visited during the Blizzard of 1978 as a child with his uncle and family. Shutter Island was mainly filmed in Massachusetts, with Taunton being the location for the World War II flashback scenes. Old industrial buildings in Taunton 's Whittenton Mills Complex replicated the Dachau concentration camp. The old Medfield State Hospital in Medfield, Massachusetts was another key location. Cawley 's office scenes were the second floor of the chapel during the late evening. Lights were shone through the windows to make it look like it was daytime. The crew painted the hospital 's brick walls to look like plywood. This served the dual purpose of acting as scenery and blocking the set from view of a local road. The crew wanted to film at the old Worcester State Hospital, but demolition of surrounding buildings made it impossible. Borderland State Park in Easton, Massachusetts was used for the cabin scene. The film used Peddocks Island as a setting for the story 's island. East Point, in Nahant, Massachusetts was the location for the lighthouse scenes. Filming ended on July 2, 2008. Shutter Island was originally slated to be released on October 2, 2009, but Paramount Pictures delayed it until February 19, 2010. Music Shutter Island : Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack album by Various Artists Released February 2, 2010 Genre Film soundtrack Length 116 : 41 Label Rhino Records Producer Robbie Robertson John Powell Shutter Island : Music from the Motion Picture was released on February 2, 2010, by Rhino Records. The film does not have an original score. Instead, Scorsese 's longtime collaborator Robbie Robertson created an ensemble of previously recorded material to use in the film. According to a statement on Paramount 's website : `` The collection of modern classical music ( on the soundtrack album ) was hand - selected by Robertson, who is proud of its scope and sound. ' This may be the most outrageous and beautiful soundtrack I 've ever heard. ' ( Robertson stated ). '' A full track - listing of the album can be seen below. All the musical works are featured in the final film. Disc 1 `` Fog Tropes '' ( Ingram Marshall ) -- ( Orchestra of St. Lukes & John Adams ) `` Symphony No. 3 : Passacaglia -- Allegro Moderato '' ( Krzysztof Penderecki ) -- ( National Polish Radio Symphony & Antoni Wit ) `` Music for Marcel Duchamp '' ( John Cage ) -- ( Philipp Vandré ) `` Hommage à John Cage '' -- ( Nam June Paik ) `` Lontano '' ( György Ligeti ) -- ( Wiener Philharmoniker & Claudio Abbado ) `` Rothko Chapel 2 '' ( Morton Feldman ) -- ( UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus ) `` Cry '' -- ( Johnnie Ray ) `` On the Nature of Daylight '' -- ( Max Richter ) `` Uaxuctum : The Legend of the Mayan City Which They Themselves Destroyed for Religious Reasons -- 3rd Movement '' ( Giacinto Scelsi ) -- ( Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra ) `` Quartet for Strings and Piano in A Minor '' ( Gustav Mahler ) -- ( Prazak Quartet ) Disc 2 `` Christian Zeal and Activity '' ( John Adams ) -- ( The San Francisco Symphony & Edo de Waart ) `` Suite for Symphonic Strings : Nocturne '' ( Lou Harrison ) -- ( The New Professionals Orchestra & Rebecca Miller ) `` Lizard Point '' -- ( Brian Eno ) `` Four Hymns : II for Cello and Double Bass '' ( Alfred Schnittke ) -- ( Torleif Thedéen & Entcho Radoukanov ) `` Root of an Unfocus '' ( John Cage ) -- ( Boris Berman ) `` Prelude -- The Bay '' -- ( Ingram Marshall ) `` Wheel of Fortune '' -- ( Kay Starr ) `` Tomorrow Night '' -- ( Lonnie Johnson ) `` This Bitter Earth '' / `` On the Nature of Daylight '' -- ( Dinah Washington & Max Richter ; Arrangement by Robbie Robertson ) Genre Shutter Island is a period piece with nods to different films in the film noir and horror genres, paying particular homage to Alfred Hitchcock 's works. Scorsese stated in an interview that the main reference to Teddy Daniels was Dana Andrews ' character in Laura, and that he was also influenced by several very low - budget 1940s zombie movies made by Val Lewton. The main frame of the plot resembles that of William Peter Blatty 's The Ninth Configuration, as well as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. La Croix noted that Shutter Island was a `` complex and puzzling '' work which borrowed from genres as diverse as detective, fantasy, and the psychological thriller. There have been differing opinions over the ending of the film in which Laeddis asks Dr. Sheehan, `` ( W ) hich would be worse -- to live as a monster, or to die as a good man ? '', a line that does not appear in the book. Professor James Gilligan of New York University was Scorsese 's psychiatric adviser, and he said that Laeddis ' last words mean : `` I feel too guilty to go on living. I 'm not going to actually commit suicide, but I 'm going to vicariously commit suicide by handing myself over to these people who 're going to lobotomize me. '' Dennis Lehane however said, `` Personally, I think he has a momentary flash.... It 's just one moment of sanity mixed in the midst of all the other delusions. '' Release Martin Scorsese at the premiere of Shutter Island at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival The film was scheduled to be released by Paramount Pictures in the United States and Canada on October 2, 2009. Paramount later announced it was going to push back the release date to February 19, 2010. Reports attribute the pushback to Paramount not having `` the financing in 2009 to spend the $50 to $60 million necessary to market a big awards pic like this '', to DiCaprio 's unavailability to promote the film internationally, and to Paramount 's hope that the economy might rebound enough by February 2010 that a film geared toward adult audiences would be more viable financially. The film premiered at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival as part of the competition screening on February 13, 2010. Spanish distributor Manga Films distributed the film in Spain after winning a bidding war that reportedly reached the $6 million to $8 million range. Critical reception Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 68 % based on 241 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6 / 10. The site 's critical consensus reads, `` It may not rank with Scorsese 's best work, but Shutter Island 's gleefully unapologetic genre thrills represent the director at his most unrestrained. '' On Metacritic, the film received a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating `` generally favorable reviews ''. Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average `` C + '' grade, on an A+ to F scale. Lawrence Toppman of The Charlotte Observer gave the film 4 / 4 stars claiming `` After four decades, Martin Scorsese has earned the right to deliver a simple treatment of a simple theme with flair. '' Writing for The Wall Street Journal, John Anderson highly praised the film, suggesting it `` requires multiple viewings to be fully realized as a work of art. Its process is more important than its story, its structure more important than the almost perfunctory plot twists it perpetrates. It 's a thriller, a crime story and a tortured psychological parable about collective guilt. '' Awarding the film 3 ⁄ stars out of 4, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun - Times wrote `` the movie is about : atmosphere, ominous portents, the erosion of Teddy 's confidence and even his identity. It 's all done with flawless directorial command. Scorsese has fear to evoke, and he does it with many notes. '' The Orlando Sentinel 's Roger Moore, who gave the film 2 ⁄ stars out of 4, wrote, `` It 's not bad, but as Scorsese, America 's greatest living filmmaker and film history buff should know, even Hitchcock came up short on occasion. See for yourself. '' Dana Stevens of Slate described the film `` an aesthetically and at times intellectually exciting puzzle, but it 's never emotionally involving ''. The Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday negatively described the film as being `` weird ''. A.O. Scott of The New York Times wrote in his review that `` Something TERRIBLE is afoot. Sadly, that something turns out to be the movie itself. '' Box office The film opened # 1 at the US box office with $41 million, according to studio estimates. The movie gave Scorsese his best box office opening yet. The film remained # 1 in its second weekend with $22.2 million. Eventually, the film grossed worldwide $294,803,014 and became Scorsese 's second highest - grossing film worldwide. Home media Shutter Island was released on DVD and Blu - ray on June 8, 2010, in the US, and on August 2, 2010 in the UK. The UK release featured two editions -- a standard edition and a limited steel - case edition. References Jump up ^ `` Films Shutter Island ''. DarkHorizons.com. Retrieved February 18, 2010. ^ Jump up to : `` Shutter Island ( 2010 ) ''. Box Office Mojo. Amazon.com. Retrieved December 26, 2010. Jump up ^ Fleming, Michael ( October 22, 2007 ). `` Scorsese, DiCaprio team for ' Island ' ''. Variety. Retrieved January 8, 2008. Jump up ^ Mayberry, Carly ( February 26, 2008 ). `` Trio of stars in for ' Shutter ' ''. The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 27, 2008. Jump up ^ Symkus, Ed, `` Real local flavor on display in ' Shutter Island ' '', The Patriot Ledger, February 19, 2010 Jump up ^ Alspach, Kyle ( March 8, 2008 ). `` Raynham native plays Nazi soldier executed in Scorsese film ''. The Patriot Ledger. Retrieved May 21, 2008. Jump up ^ Downing, Vicki - Ann ( March 8, 2008 ). `` Film adaptation of Lehane 's novel a boon to the region ''. EnterpriseNews.com. Retrieved May 21, 2008. Jump up ^ Riglian, Adam ( April 14, 2008 ). `` DiCaprio, Scorsese filming on Peddocks Island ''. The Patriot Ledger. Retrieved May 21, 2008. Jump up ^ Fee, Gayle ; Laura Raposa ( July 3, 2008 ). `` DiCaprio, crew cap ' Ashecliffe ' shoot ''. Boston Herald. Retrieved July 17, 2008. Jump up ^ Finke, Nikki ( August 21, 2009 ). `` SHOCKER ! Paramount Moves Scorsese 's ' Shutter Island ' To February 19, 2010 ''. DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com. Retrieved February 18, 2010. 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Jump up ^ Daniels, Derek ( December 1, 2010 ). `` The Ninth Configuration ( Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane ) ''. Rotten Tomatoes. Flixter. Retrieved September 8, 2011. 30 years before the disappointing Shutter Island took viewers to a remote mental asylum with a world - turned - upside - down storyline, William Peter Blatty gave us this... Jump up ^ `` ' Shutter Island ' shows the power of isolation ''. Los Angeles Times. February 21, 2010. Retrieved September 8, 2011. A better version of this basic story was done 30 years ago by William Peter Blatty : The Ninth Configuration. ^ Jump up to : Packer, Sharon ( September 5, 2012 ). Cinema 's Sinister Psychiatrists : from Caligari to Hannibal. New York, NY : McFarland. p. 197. ISBN 9780786463909. Retrieved April 4, 2014. The Ninth Configuration is far less polished than Martin Scorsese 's Shutter Island, but the principle is the same. Jump up ^ Raw, Kaurence & Ersin Tutan, Defne ( 2012 ). 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Jump up ^ Moore, Roger ( February 17, 2010 ). `` Movie Review : Shutter Island ''. Orlando Sentinel. access - date = requires url = ( help ) Jump up ^ Stevens, Dana ( February 18, 2010 ). `` I 'm Surrounded by Crazy People -- Leo DiCaprio scrunches his face in Martin Scorsese 's Shutter Island ''. Slate. Retrieved October 12, 2013. Jump up ^ Hornaday, Ann ( February 19, 2010 ). `` Critic Review for Shutter Island ''. The Washington Post. Retrieved October 12, 2013. Jump up ^ Scott, A.O. ( February 19, 2010 ). `` Movie Review : Shutter Island ''. The New York Times. Retrieved October 12, 2013. Jump up ^ Brandon Gray ( February 21, 2010 ). `` ` Shutter Island ' Lights Up ''. Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved April 13, 2010. Jump up ^ Brandon Gray ( March 1, 2010 ). `` ' Shutter Island ' Hangs On, ' Cop Out, ' ' Crazies ' Debut Decently ''. Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved April 13, 2010. 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Official website Shutter Island on IMDb Shutter Island at AllMovie Shutter Island at Box Office Mojo Shutter Island at Rotten Tomatoes Shutter Island at Metacritic Dennis Lehane Bibliography Kenzie - Gennaro novels A Drink Before the War ( 1994 ) Darkness, Take My Hand ( 1996 ) Sacred ( 1997 ) Gone, Baby, Gone ( 1998 ) Prayers for Rain ( 1999 ) Moonlight Mile ( 2010 ) Coughlin novels The Given Day ( 2008 ) Live by Night ( 2012 ) World Gone By ( 2015 ) Other works Mystic River ( 2001 ) Shutter Island ( 2003 ) Coronado : Stories ( 2006 ) The Drop ( 2014 ) Since We Fell ( 2017 ) Filmography Adaptations Mystic River ( 2003 ) Gone Baby Gone ( 2007 ) Shutter Island ( 2010 ) The Drop ( 2014 ) Live by Night ( 2016 ) Other The Wire `` Dead Soldiers '' `` Refugees '' `` Clarifications '' Boardwalk Empire `` Resignation '' Mr. Mercedes `` Gods Who Fall '' `` People in the Rain '' `` Willow Lake '' Martin Scorsese filmography Feature films Who 's That Knocking at My Door ( 1967 ) Boxcar Bertha ( 1972 ) Mean Streets ( 1973 ) Alice Does n't Live Here Anymore ( 1974 ) Taxi Driver ( 1976 ) New York, New York ( 1977 ) Raging Bull ( 1980 ) The King of Comedy ( 1982 ) After Hours ( 1985 ) The Color of Money ( 1986 ) The Last Temptation of Christ ( 1988 ) New York Stories ( segment `` Life Lessons '', 1989 ) Goodfellas ( 1990 ) Cape Fear ( 1991 ) The Age of Innocence ( 1993 ) Casino ( 1995 ) Kundun ( 1997 ) Bringing Out the Dead ( 1999 ) Gangs of New York ( 2002 ) The Aviator ( 2004 ) The Departed ( 2006 ) Shutter Island ( 2010 ) Hugo ( 2011 ) The Wolf of Wall Street ( 2013 ) Silence ( 2016 ) The Irishman ( 2019 ) Short films What 's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This ? ( 1963 ) It 's Not Just You, Murray ! ( 1964 ) The Big Shave ( 1967 ) `` Bad '' ( 1987 ) Made in Milan ( 1990 ) The Key to Reserva ( 2007 ) The Audition ( 2015 ) Television `` Mirror, Mirror '' ( Amazing Stories ) ( 1986 ) `` Boardwalk Empire '' ( Boardwalk Empire ) ( 2010 ) Vinyl ( 2016 ) Documentaries Street Scenes ( 1970 ) Italianamerican ( 1974 ) American Boy : A Profile of Steven Prince ( 1978 ) The Last Waltz ( 1978 ) A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies ( 1995 ) My Voyage to Italy ( 1999 ) The Blues : Feel Like Going Home ( 2003 ) No Direction Home ( 2005 ) Shine a Light ( 2008 ) A Letter to Elia ( 2010 ) Public Speaking ( 2010 ) George Harrison : Living in the Material World ( 2011 ) The 50 Year Argument ( 2014 ) Related Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio VIAF : 316752377 GND : 1025330994 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shutter_Island_(film)&oldid=806775991 '' Categories : 2010 films English - language films 2010s mystery films 2010s psychological thriller films American films American mystery films American thriller films Films directed by Martin Scorsese Bipolar disorder in fiction Films about psychiatry Films based on American novels Films based on thriller novels Films set in 1954 Films set in Massachusetts Films set in psychiatric hospitals Films shot in Massachusetts United States Marshals Service Appian Way Productions films Paramount Pictures films Films set on islands Mental illness in fiction Phoenix Pictures films Neo-noir Filicide in fiction Films based on works by Dennis Lehane Screenplays by Laeta Kalogridis Films produced by Martin Scorsese Hidden categories : Articles with French - language external links Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL Use mdy dates from July 2015 Articles with hAudio microformats Album infoboxes lacking a cover Music infoboxes with deprecated parameters Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Talk Contents About Wikipedia বাংলা Български Català Čeština Dansk Deutsch Ελληνικά Español Euskara فارسی Français Galego 한국어 Հայերեն Hrvatski Bahasa Indonesia Íslenska Italiano עברית ქართული Кыргызча Latviešu Lietuvių Lumbaart Magyar Македонски മലയാളം Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Polski Português Română Русский Shqip Simple English Српски / srpski Suomi Svenska Türkçe Українська Tiếng Việt 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 24 October 2017, at 02 : 28. 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Question: what is the movie shutter island all about
Answer: investigating a psychiatric facility on Shutter Island after one of the patients goes missing