

Take Shelter
Far away from the cruel world.
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
TMDB
7.1/10
2,097 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5M
- Box office
- $3.7M
- Language
- English
- small town
- beach
- schizophrenia
- nightmare
- obsession
- deaf
- ohio
- shelter
- end of the world
- premonition
- sanity
- apocalypse
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance24 Jan 2011
- TheatricalR30 Sept 2011
United KingdomGB
- PremiereBFI London Film Festival21 Oct 2011
- Theatrical1525 Nov 2011
United Arab EmiratesAE
- TV5 Aug 2015
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMSydney Film Festival17 Jun 2011
CanadaCA
- PremiereRToronto International Film Festival15 Sept 2011
- Theatrical (limited)14A14 Oct 2011
ArgentinaAR
- Physical16DVD26 Jun 2012
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1 Feb 2012
BrazilBR
- PremiereRio de Janeiro International Film Festival6 Oct 2011
- Theatrical1224 Jan 2012
- Physical12DVD7 Jun 2012
CroatiaHR
- Theatrical10 Nov 2011
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical155 Jul 2012
EcuadorEC
- PhysicalDVD14 Apr 2021
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival15 May 2011
- Theatrical124 Jan 2012
Frequently asked questions
Take Shelter was released on 30 September 2011.
Audience reviews
3- J6/10
Jack
5/16/2020
I do love slow-paced thriller films and this is exactly that. Having said that, there is something that makes me uneasy about the ending. It is up to so many interpretations that the writer / director of the film didn’t know himself how to end otherwise a close-to-brilliant story with a decent acting. Would I watch it again? Possibly. Would I make my friends watch it? I guess so.
- G7/10
griggs79
3/24/2025
_Take Shelter’s_ a slow burn, but it gets under your skin. Shannon’s great—properly intense—and there’s loads to chew on about fear, family, and mental health. Bit heavy-handed at times, and it drags in spots
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/13/2025
The family “LaForche” live in a remote Ohio backwater where mother “Samantha” (Jessica Chastain) looks after their deaf daughter “Hannah” (Tova Stewart) whilst dad “Curtis” (Michael Shannon) works for a local drilling outfit. Recently, though, things have become a bit strained as he has been having fairly graphic and disturbing nightmares. These foretell of the mother of all storms sweeping all before it before somet…
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