Michael Shannon, about whom there is already Oscar talk, stars in Take Shelter as a man who may or may not be losing his grip on reality. Curtis (Shannon) is a normally reliable husband and father who begins to suffer from terrifying, apocalyptic, nightmares about an impending storm that will doom humanity. He seeks out help, but his paranoia grows and he begins to build a tornado shelter in his backyard in case the inevitable should happen, though his marriage and career begin to fall apart in the process. Is he sheltering his family from the storm or from himself? Is he paranoid or a modern day Noah?

Curtis' wife, Samantha, is played by Jessica Chastain (who while unknown a year ago, has actually been quietly toiling away for the last four years on films that for one reason or another are all coming out now and is my current girl-crush). They costar with Kathy Baker (who is in Machine Gun Preacher with Shannon and Gerard Butler), Shea Whigham (who is in "Boardwalk Empire" with Shannon), Ray McKinnon and Lisa Gay Hamilton.

The first clip is called "Storm" 

The second is called "Is Anyone Seeing This?"

Take Shelter opened in New York and LA this past weekend and will slowly expand in the next few weeks (the same as Shannon's other film in theaters now, Machine Gun Preacher - he is fantastic, by the way, in his small role as Donnie, Sam's partner in crime whose own salvation didn't take as well as Sam's did), as awards season goes into full swing.

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