Shutter Island is a 2010 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Laeta Kalogridis, based on Dennis Lehane's 2003 novel of the same name. Your attention WILL not be lost. The scenery is beautiful and finely done with no excessive lighting, grain or darkness.

Lehane has said he sought to write a novel that would be a homage to Gothic settings, B movies, and pulp.He described the novel as a hybrid of the works of the Brontë sisters and the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers. SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature.

Dennis Lehane has 90 books on Goodreads with 919912 ratings. The editing by Thelma Schoonmaker is fluid and pitch-perfect, and never makes the film lose focus. Shutter Island. This 59-page guide for “Shutter Island” by Dennis Lehane includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 25 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Marshals arrive on the island, now a hospital for the criminally insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient.

A film adaptation was released in February 2010. Lehane is a master at creating palpable tension between the covers of a book, and nowhere is that more evident than in Shutter Island. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as U.S.

Shutter Island is a novel by American writer Dennis Lehane, published by Harper Collins in April 2003. The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems.The New York Times calls Shutter Island, “Startlingly original.” Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith—the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini. Dennis Lehane (born August 4, 1965) is an American author. The Drop. He has published more than a dozen novels; the first several were a series of mysteries featuring a couple of protagonists and other recurring characters, including A Drink Before the War. ... Shutter Island, Gone Baby Gone, Moonlight Mile by. Since I can hardly discuss that without revealing it, let me say instead what a wonderful piece of work this is: at once a mystery, a character study, and a psychological thriller. The movie is based on a book by Dennis Lehane and is packed with twists and turns that will leave you breathless and uneasy. Two U.S.

The Paperback of the Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane at Barnes & Noble. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them.