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The Shells
- Adrienne Love
- Available
- Thriller
- 2020
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Market: Fri, 16 Oct 2020
AgentAllie Cohen, Brandon Finkelstein, Jon Cassir, Jiah Shin & Praveen Pandian (CAA)
ManagerErick Mendoza & Jeremy Platt (Grandview)
AgentAllie Cohen, Brandon Finkelstein, Jon Cassir, Jiah Shin & Praveen Pandian (CAA)
ManagerErick Mendoza & Jeremy Platt (Grandview)
Story details are being kept under wraps.
After the death of patriarch Richard Shell, an astrophysicist with a strange relationship to the occult, his family must reunite and deal with their own interpersonal problems and his complicated legacy.
An estranged family reunites after the death of a grandfather, however the disappearance of family members during the funeral points to a much darker part of the family's past.
When an eccentric father dies, a pair of estranged brothers bring their families to his estate, but as his funeral progresses family members begin to disappear.
After the patriarch of the Shell family dies, family members reunite for the will reading, but as they begin to mysteriously vanish, they’re forced to contend with the dark forces and cult-like followers he surrounded himself with.
Film
Drama, Horror, Sci-fi, Inheritance, Rescue, Home, Marriage, Science, Secrets, Siblings, Small Town, Suspenseful
97
PG-13
High
M
White / European
45
Average
"August: Osage County" (2013)
"Event Horizon" (1997)
"Midsommar" (2019)
"Knives Out" (2019)
"Inheritance" (2020)
Present / 3 days
Montana - large estate, 3 bedrooms / guest house / road / lake
Florida - small home, child bedroom, art studio, family room
Oregon - large home, 2 teen bedrooms
In Florida, STEW SHELL (40s), tells his wife CLAUDIA SHELL (40s) and daughter ANA SHELL (11) that his father has passed away. Hundreds of miles away in Oregon, IRIS SHELL (18) is told the same thing by her brother WOLFE SHELL (16). Their parents WILL SHELL (40s) and TERRY SHELL (40s), hope that they’re left with RICHARD SHELL’S (adult) prized book possession to ensure their children’s comfort for the future.
Will, Terry, Iris, Wolfe, and RUBY (adult dog) arrive at Richard's estate in Montana. JOYCE (60s), Richard's longtime friend, greets them, though the welcome is tense. In their room, Iris agrees to take some of Wolfe’s drugs. Terry finds an old photo album and Will is forced to tell her about his sister that passed away when him and Stew were younger. The boys were supposed to be watching their sister and so Richard always held her death against them. Stew, Claudia, and Ana arrive a bit after.
Joyce gives the group a tour of the house. Ending in the library, which houses a priceless signed copy of “The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein,”.
Richard loved Iris, especially because they’re both scientists, and left her his notebook,...
Will, Terry, Iris, Wolfe, and RUBY (adult dog) arrive at Richard's estate in Montana. JOYCE (60s), Richard's longtime friend, greets them, though the welcome is tense. In their room, Iris agrees to take some of Wolfe’s drugs. Terry finds an old photo album and Will is forced to tell her about his sister that passed away when him and Stew were younger. The boys were supposed to be watching their sister and so Richard always held her death against them. Stew, Claudia, and Ana arrive a bit after.
Joyce gives the group a tour of the house. Ending in the library, which houses a priceless signed copy of “The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein,”.
Richard loved Iris, especially because they’re both scientists, and left her his notebook,...