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Film Festival: "Shutter Island"

This  R-rated film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese, is a psychological mystery-thriller based on a 2003 novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane.

Set in 1954, U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) visit the Ashecliff Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island. They are investigating the disappearance of a patient who vanished from a locked room.

Dr. John Crawley (Ben Kingsley), the head psychiatrist, explains that Rachel was institutionalized after drowning her three children, but is under the delusion that she is still home and her children are still alive. The cliffs surrounding the perimeter make it impossible for Rachel to have reached the nearby caves.

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