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Take Shelter
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1429
- IMDb #1498
- Google retired #3477
- Rotten Tomatoes #990
- Metacritic #442
- Letterboxd #1236
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #758
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1658
- Metacritic Critics #399
- Metacritic Audience #875
- Criticker #438
- Douban #1692
- Kinopoisk #3368
- AlloCiné #886
- Trakt #2383
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 65, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 92. Critics average 88, everyone else 72.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A blue-collar husband and father begins to experience terrifying, apocalyptic nightmares and haunting visions of an impending storm. Plagued by anxiety, he becomes obsessed with expanding the storm shelter in his backyard to protect his family. His increasingly frantic behavior strains his relationships and his grip on reality, leaving him torn between the fear that a catastrophe is coming and the dread that he may be losing his mind.
Details
- Director
- Jeff Nichols
- Writer
- Jeff Nichols
- Released
- 30 September 2011
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $5.0M
- Box office
- $3.7M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Grand prix du Festival de Deauville 2011 | Grand prix du Festival de Deauville | Winner |
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