2/28/2024 0 Comments Shut in movie 2016 plot![]() Meantime, the weather reports are full of warnings about an apocalyptic snowstorm headed Mary's way. Named Joan (Ellen David) to let Mary know that Tom is, like Steven six months ago, about to be shipped off to some kind of care facility. ![]() One of her clients is a little deaf boy named Tom Patterson (Jacob Tremblay, Room), who seems to perhaps have a few anger issues of his own, something that is leading an (underdeveloped) foster care woman Mary still has aĬhild psychology business going on, but a lot of her time is devoted to caring for Steven. Which point the film segues to six months later, with the Portmans' gorgeous Maine mansion now surrounded by feet of snow. AnĪrgument between Richard and Steven in the family station wagon leads to a head on collision with a semi truck (thankfully not explicitly detailed), Shut In sets up its central premise even as the credits play out, with Mary and her husband Richard (Peter Outerbridge) having come to theĬonclusion that the only way they can deal with Steven's anger issues is to ship him off to some kind of behavioral modification boarding school. Heaton) paralyzed and in what amounts to a persistent vegetative state. Psychologist Mary Portman, a woman dealing with the horrendous aftermath of a car accident which left her husband dead and her son Steven (Charlie HowĪn actress of Naomi Watts' merits got mixed up in this predictable and resolutely unscary mess is anyone's guess, but here she is, on hand as Location dealing with both psychological issues and perhaps things going bump in the night that are not manifestations of her own troubled mind. Despite itsįlaws, Dead of Winter might seem to be High Art when compared to Shut In, another film which posits a hapless female in an isolated Sorts of nemeses, whether real or imagined, was fun and even occasionally fairly tense (especially one scene involving a missing finger). Dead of Winter was frankly no great shakes, but its story of a vulnerable female in an isolated location battling all One of the most fun memories I have of my by now long history with home theater equipment is when I purchased my very first (stereo!) televisionĪnd a VCR, also stopping by a rental place on the way back from the store to pick up Dead of Winter, a kind of on the fly choice I got to watch as a kind of christening of my incredible new high tech equipmentįirmly in cheek, of course). Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, March 3, 2017
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