#Shut in 2016 plot tv

Then what is meant as a plot twist is dropped into the weather report: The missing child (Jacob Tremblay, the moppet who made a big impact in Room) is not only inside the house, but he and the doctor both find themselves held hostage by the 18-year-old Stephen, who is not only not a paralyzed invalid but a hopped up, oversexed quasi-hunk who longs to share his hospital bed with his stepmother and return her love for real. Her bewildered shrink suggests she’s suffering from something called “sleep parasomnia,” whatever that is, but as she grows more stressed with terror, a whale of a blizzard plunges the house into darkness and renders the roads too unpassable to make a run for sleeping pills. When she starts hearing noises in the walls and under the floor and mysterious scratches appear on Stephen’s face, she suspects the ghost of a missing deaf boy she once treated who disappeared and was given up for dead. Her only contact with the outside world is her own therapist (Oliver Platt), who counsels her online from the computer screen.

#Shut in 2016 plot tv

For some reason that only freshman screenwriter Christina Hodson and British TV director Farren Blackburn know, the good doctor is holed up in a remote mansion in Maine without a servant, devoting every moment of her lonely life to bathing, feeding and massaging her strapping young ward. Mary Portman loses her husband and gets stuck with the lifelong responsibility to taking care of the only survivor, a mentally unstable 18-year-old stepson named Stephen, played by hapless newcomer Charlie Heaton, whose agent is probably erasing Shut In from his client’s résumé as we speak. It begins with a harrowing head-on collision when Watts, a clinical psychologist named Dr.

Starring: Naomi Watts, Charlie Heaton and Jacob Tremblay