Shutter Island is now on Netflix and that’s our Sunday night sorted.
Martin Scorsese’s 2010 psychological thriller is based on Dennis Lehane’s 2003 novel of the same name – and stars Leonardo DiCaprio as U.S. Marshal Edward ‘Teddy’ Daniels.
In 1954, the up-and-coming U.S. Marshal is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston’s Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital.
Daniels has been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but it isn’t long before he wonders if he has been brought there as a part of a twisted plot by the hospital doctors.
Teddy’s uses his investigative skills to find 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.
