Sneak Preview: TAKE SHELTER (Jeff Nichols, 2011)

Event Date: September 29, 2011 - 7:30pm

Location: The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA

Curtis LaForche lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha and their six-year-old daughter Hannah, who is deaf. Money is tight, and navigating Hannah’s healthcare and special needs education is a constant struggle. Despite that, Curtis and Samantha are very much in love and their family is a happy one.

Then Curtis begins having terrifying dreams about an encroaching, apocalyptic storm. He chooses to keep the disturbance to himself, channeling his anxiety into the obsessive building of a storm shelter in their backyard. His seemingly inexplicable behavior concerns and confounds Samantha, and provokes intolerance among co-workers, friends and neighbors. But the resulting strain on his marriage and tension within the community doesn’t compare to Curtis’ private fear of what his dreams may truly signify.

Winner, Critics Week Grand Prize, 2011 Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival
Official Selection, Melbourne International Film Festival
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival
Official Selection, BFI London Film Festival

"This deliberately paced psychological drama builds an ever-tightening knot of tension around an excellent Michael Shannon, here playing a family man slowly driven mad by apocalyptic visions that could be paranoid, prophetic or both." -Justin Chang, VARIETY

"Shannon, one of the finest brooders in independent film, conveys it all with riveting intensity, as well as an underdog soulfulness that utterly wins a viewer’s sympathy when the time of reckoning comes" -Damon Smith, REVERSE SHOT

"Shannon gives one of the best performances of the year, in a film that manages both white-knuckle intensity and tender drama." -Simon Miraudo, QUICKFLIX

WRITER and DIRECTOR: Jeff Nichols
CAST: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Wingham, Kathy Baker
A Sony Pictures Classics release
35mm, 120 min

For this evening only, seating will be limited to 250 people.