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.
Cast:
- Leonardo DiCaprio - Teddy Daniels
- Mark Ruffalo - Chuck Aule
- Ben Kingsley - Dr. Cawley
- Max von Sydow - Dr. Naehring
- Michelle Williams - Dolores Chanal
- Emily Mortimer - Rachel 1
- Patricia Clarkson - Rachel 2
- Jackie Earle Haley - George Noyce
- Ted Levine - Warden
- John Carroll Lynch - Deputy Warden McPherson
- Elias Koteas - Laeddis
- Robin Bartlett - Bridget Kearns
- Christopher Denham - Peter Breene
- Nellie Sciutto - Nurse Marino
- Joseph Sikora - Glen Miga
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