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...Alice in Wonderland, $116.3 million, first weekend 2. Brooklyn's Finest, $13.5 million, first weekend 3. Shutter Island, $13.3 million; $95.8 million, third week 4. Cop Out, $9.1 million; $32.4 million, second week 5. Avatar, $7.7 million; $720.2 million, twelfth week 6. The Crazies, $7 million; $27.4 million, second week 7. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, $5.1 million; $78 million, fourth week 8. Valentine's Day, $4.3 million; $106.4 million, fourth week 9. Crazy Heart, $3.4 million; $29.6 million, twelfth week 10. Dear John, $2.9 million; $76.7 million, fifth week...
...inmates of Ashecliffe hospital look at the new visitor with stares that might be pleading or warning. U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) has come with his partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) to isolated Shutter Island in Boston Harbor to track down an escaped patient from the insane asylum. But that is only one of the enigmas Teddy must unravel. The doctors who run the institution, Cawley (Ben Kingsley) and Naehring (Max von Sydow), often respond to Teddy's questions with strange smiles whose meaning eludes both him and the audience. Teddy too has dark secrets: searing memories...
...Shutter Island, the 2003 novel by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River; Gone, Baby, Gone), ransacked nearly 2,500 years of murder-mystery tradition - from Oedipus Rex to Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - and was deeply indebted to such early David Fincher films as The Game and Fight Club. The plot, set in the 1950s, is a festival of conspiracies involving Nazis, Soviets, lobotomizers, the CIA and LSD, plus some very crafty lunatics and an oddly convenient hurricane. Packed with word and number puzzles, like a Da Vinci Code with fewer chase scenes, Lehane's story was devised...
...hall of distorted mirrors, then pulls the expertly woven rug of plausibility from under their feet to reveal the scary graffiti on the floor. Whether you feel enlightened or swindled is your call. But stick around for the final scene, where self-knowledge may redeem the biggest monster on Shutter Island...
...jokes and jolts, that they may misread or discard the picture's potent message: that some things about ourselves are so painful to acknowledge, we almost wish we could cut them out of our skulls. This, and not the plot gimmickry, is what must have lured Scorsese to Shutter Island: the chance to leave audiences with an illuminating emptiness...