No. 24 Take Shelter (2011) 49 of 100
When you click on Michael Shannon's IMDb page the first thing listed under his ‘Known for’ bio is this film. It also has a photo from this film as the first image, so it’s clearly a big outing for the actor. It came out during his run on ‘Boardwalk Empire’ and it’s one of the first pictures on his CV where he’s the leading man and basically carries the film. It’s one of his many collaborations with director/writer Mike Nicholls, with the two reuniting recently in ‘The Bikeriders’ which we’ve already had a peek at. In the film Shannon plays Curtis, a hard working family man whose young daughter has become deaf. The family are learning sign language and looking to get surgery for her to restore her hearing. Curtis works for an engineering company drilling holes and is partnered with Shea Whigham, a pairing we see reprised later in ‘Boardwalk Empire’. The first sense of things being somewhat awry is when he stands out in the rain and finds it to be a thick, syrupy substanc...