Sony Pictures Classics has released the official trailer for the indie film Take Shelter, written and directed by Jeff Nichols (Shotgun Stories) and stars Michael Shannon andJessica Chastain. This trailer looks great, it features some very unusual scenes as well as a sampling of the craziness of the characters. Check it out below.
Yahoo has the HD trailer.
Curtis LaForche lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha and six-year-old daughter Hannah, who is deaf. Curtis makes a modest living as a crew chief for a sand-mining company. Samantha is a stay-at-home mother and part-time seamstress who supplements their income by selling handmade wares at the flea market each weekend. Money is tight, and navigating Hannah’s healthcare and special needs education is a constant struggle. Despite that, Curtis and Samantha are very much in love and their family is a happy one. Then Curtis begins having terrifying dreams about an encroaching, apocalyptic storm. He chooses to keep the disturbance to himself, channeling his anxiety into the obsessive building of a storm shelter in their backyard….
Take Shelter is both written and directed by American filmmaker Jeff Nichols, also director of that other Michael Shannon indie Shotgun Stories, previously. This premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year and also played in the Cannes Critics’ Week side (where I saw it) to much acclaim. Sony Pictures Classics is bringing Take Shelter to limited theaters and has tentatively set an October 7th release this fall.
