Martin Scorcese directed this 2010 thriller based on Dennis Lehane’s novel of the same name.
In "Shutter Island," Leonardo DiCaprio plays a US marshal investigating the disappearance of a patient from a mental institution on one of Boston's harbor islands.
As Monitor film reviewer Peter Ranier points out, "Shutter Island" is fun, in a film-school kind of way." Scorcese loads it with references and homages to “Out of the Past,” “Laura,” and “Isle of the Dead," to name a few.
Though the creepy island in the film does a fine job of mimicking the Boston Harbor islands, the film was actually shot in Maine's Acadia National Park.
"Shutter Island" took in $128 million at the US box office.
