This film is adapted from the novel of the same name by American novelist Dennis Lehane. In 1954, federal police officer Teddy (played by Leonardo DiC[Expand All]
This film is adapted from the novel of the same name by American novelist Dennis Lehane. In 1954, federal police officer Teddy (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner Chuck (played by Mark Ruffalo) took a boat to the Shutter Island Psychiatric Prison near Boston to investigate a bizarre disappearance case. Rachel (played by Emily Mortimer), the female prisoner who killed her own flesh and blood, mysteriously escaped from the heavily guarded prison cell and hid deep in the island. Teddy suspects that the prison's chief psychiatrist, John Cowley (played by Ben Kingsley), is deliberately concealing the truth and reveals to Chuck that his real purpose of going to the island is actually to find the administrator who set fire to death his wife, Doloris (played by Michelle Williams), back then. And expose the crime of the US government in conducting human science experiments using mentally ill prisoners. But as the investigation deepened gradually, the truth became increasingly confusing...[Collapse]
