Shutter Island (2010)

Shutter Island
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio  Mark Ruffalo  Ben Kingsley  Max von Sydow  Michelle Williams
Year of release: 2010
Running time: 132 Min.
Age restriction: 16 LV
Category: Drama  Mystery  Recommended  Thriller  

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.

Awards: 2 wins & 6 nominations