Soon, it all gets to be too much for Mary, and when a crippling winter storm rolls in and cuts them off from the rest of the world, Mary and her demons are left to struggle for her sanity and her survival. Overcome with both guilt over the role she imagines she played in Tom’s death and her shame at the burden she feels in caring for Stephen, Mary finds herself haunted by a series of dreams and visions that reveal a darkness within her and a sense of impending doom all around. When one of those patients, a young deaf boy named Tom, disappears and is presumed dead, Mary begins to believe that Tom’s ghost is reaching out to her from beyond the grave. Emotionally shattered and left to care for Stephen alone in their isolated New England home, child psychologist Mary struggles to get by, living essentially a half-life tending to Stephen’s physical needs at home while tending to the psychological needs of her patients at work. When Mary and Richard decide to send their troubled teen son, Stephen, away for help, a tragic accident leaves Richard dead and Stephen essentially a vegetable. In the end, though, Shut In ultimately feels like the whole is decidedly less than the sum of its parts, and it is pretty clear where this intimate little thriller goes off the rails. Ultimately, that’s disappointing, because the 2016 release from director Farren Blackburn features an outstanding cast, some very interesting direction, and a production team that has assembled a good looking, well-produced film. Unfortunately, Shut In is one of the latter. They may not have the best performances, the greatest production values, or the most interesting direction, but they simply click. There are some films that come along in which the whole is clearly greater than the sum of their parts. Caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever. A heart-pounding thriller about a widowed child psychologist who lives an isolated existence in rural New England.
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