Motion Picture Association of America rating, PG-13 - parents strongly cautioned. “Shut In” (EuropaCorp) - Catholic News Service classification, A-III - adults. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 - parents strongly cautioned. The Catholic News Service classification is A-III - adults. Brief partial nudity, fleeting rough and crude language. But their ideas are all as cold as the film’s snowy setting. Director Farren Blackburn and screenwriter Christina Hodson try to give the story a fresh twist. Naomi Watts plays a widowed psychologist in rural Maine struggling to care for her stepson (Charlie Heaton) after he was paralyzed in the car accident that killed her husband. Weak and sometimes confusing psychological thriller that unfortunately blurs the line between mental illness and murderous activity, reviving a stereotype that should have expired decades ago. Jensen is a guest reviewer for Catholic News Service. Fair at best suspense thriller with Watts as a beleaguered psychologist whose recent tragic turn of events involving her now comatose son (Heaton) faces major complications in the form of an impending ice storm and a missing patient of. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 - parents strongly cautioned. SHUT IN (2016) Naomi Watts, Charlie Heaton, Oliver Platt, Jacob Tremblay, David Cubitt, Clementine Poidatz. The film contains brief partial nudity and fleeting rough and crude language. But their ideas are all as cold as the movie’s snowy setting. In short order, Mary starts having elaborately terrifying dreams - and thinks she’s seeing Tom’s ghost.ĭirector Farran Blackburn and screenwriter Christina Hodson try to give the story a fresh twist. Tom goes missing one night and is presumed to have died of exposure. Less desperately, she also has discussions about moving him into full-time nursing care.Īs though she didn’t have enough to cope with already, Mary decides to take in Tom (Jacob Tremblay), a deaf boy with psychological issues of his own. In reality, of course, this highly unlikely situation is demanded by, and complies with, an all-too-familiar formula for the genre.īeing the sole caretaker is stressful, naturally, and there comes a time when Mary dreams about drowning Stephen in the bathtub. So now Mary takes care of him - inexplicably, by herself. Stephen survived as a nonverbal quadriplegic. Her husband died in a car wreck while taking Stephen (Charlie Heaton), his troubled son from a previous marriage, to a boarding/reform school. Naomi Watts plays Mary Portman, a widowed psychologist with a home practice in rural Maine.
Such is the case with “Shut In” (EuropaCorp), a weak and sometimes confusing psychological thriller that unfortunately blurs the line between mental illness and murderous activity, reviving a stereotype that should have expired decades ago. NEW YORK (CNS) - When a film’s dramatic highlight is the wonderful line “Just put the ax down so we can talk,” and it’s not, say, a drama about Canadian lumberjacks, the story may be in a little trouble.
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