Now Mary has to cope with her paralyzed son, her stressful job, AND her guilt over letting a vulnerable child slip through her grasp, AND the fact that spooky things are starting to happen in her house, AND her annoying nightmares that give the film its only startling moments. While Mary’s in the other room talking to the authorities on the phone (she left the room so the boy, who is deaf, wouldn’t hear her end of the conversation), Tom disappears. Then one night a 9-year-old deaf boy named Tom (Jacob Tremblay), a foster kid who’d been to see Mary at her office, shows up at her house without explanation. Wilson (Oliver Platt), with whom she confers via Skype (so that he can contribute to the plot later by seeing something in Mary’s home that she doesn’t), urges her to put Stephen in a care facility. Mary tends to all of Stephen’s needs now while continuing to run her practice, and the burden is overwhelming. Mary Portman (Naomi Watts) whose teenage stepson, Stephen (Charlie Heaton), was rendered quadriplegic by the same accident that killed his father. In snowy Maine lives a recently widowed child psychologist named Dr.
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Meanwhile, the part of the story that comes after the reveal – usually the last 10-15 minutes of a 90-minute movie – takes 30 minutes. (It also has some ingredients that are just wrong.) When the story’s central mystery is explained, it comes across as ludicrous and unmotivated because the part that should have laid the foundation for it was glossed over. “Shut In” has some of the right ingredients for a good thriller, but it has them in the wrong proportions.
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