Shutter island de dennis lehane5/13/2023 ![]() Or maybe if David Fincher ("Seven," "Fight Club") had directed the film, as he was meant to at one point, the expectations would be different. Maybe if it had a little bit more of the gritty old-school flavor of Scorsese's older films, "Taxi Driver" and "Mean Streets," the film wouldn't seem so much like an indie character piece in blockbuster clothing. "Shutter Island" just comes off as a stretch. and even Bar Harbor, Maine.)īased on the narrative, I can see how big names would be drawn to it - so many juicy character roles for the actors, so many ways for a director known for his love of film history to try his hand at a mesh of Hitchcock thrills and B-movie horror. ![]() ![]() (Fun fact for locals: Scenes were shot all over the area, including Ipswich, Taunton, Hull, Sharon, Dedham, the Medfield State Hospital in Medfield, Mass. marshals investigating the disappearance of a patient from a mental hospital for the criminally insane on an island in Boston Harbor. I have not read Dennis Lehane's ("Mystic River," "Gone, Baby, Gone") novel "Shutter Island" but from what I understand the film is faithful to the story - about two U.S. Sharing screen space are Sir Ben Kingsley my boy Max von Sydow Mark Ruffalo Emily Mortimer the great Jackie Earle Haley Ted Levine of "The Silence of the Lambs" - the only legit connection to "Lambs," and he's fantastic - Patricia Clarkson Elias Koteas and Michelle Williams, using an even more, uh, "creative" accent. ![]()
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