Q 01/05

Which actor plays Teddy Daniels, the lead investigator in Shutter Island?

A) Joaquin Phoenix

B) Christian Bale

C) Leonardo DiCaprio

D) Matthew McConaughey

Answer · why

C) Leonardo DiCaprio

Leonardo DiCaprio. He signed on with his director in 2007, and his being unavailable to promote the film abroad was later reported as one reason its r...

Q 02/05

Which Clint Eastwood film was also adapted from a novel by Shutter Island's author, Dennis Lehane?

A) Million Dollar Baby

B) Mystic River

C) Changeling

D) Gran Torino

Answer · why

B) Mystic River

Mystic River. Lehane says that when that novel was praised as literature, his contrary side made him write Shutter Island next as a homage to gothic t...

Q 03/05

In what year is the story set?

A) 1947

B) 1954

C) 1961

D) 1968

Answer · why

B) 1954

The book's storm is a real one that hit New England in August of that year.

Q 04/05

Teddy Daniels arrives on Shutter Island believing he works for which agency?

A) The FBI

B) The US Marshals

C) The state police

D) Army intelligence

Answer · why

B) The US Marshals

The US Marshals. He hands over his gun on arrival like a real lawman, but the badge is part of his delusion: he had been a federal marshal before he b...

Q 05/05

Shutter Island lies in the harbor of which city?

A) Portland, Maine

B) Providence

C) Boston

D) New York

Answer · why

C) Boston

Boston. The island on screen is the harbor's real Peddocks Island, and Lehane modelled the setting on another, Long Island, which he visited as a boy ...