![]() ![]() The concept of “Shut In” is promising, I suppose, but the execution here is pretty much a total botch from start to finish. ![]() Good thing that a raging ice storm is bearing down on where she lives because absolutely nothing strange or bizarre would possibly happen when she was cut off from the outside world, right? While her psychiatrist friend suggests that she is suffering from the effects of parasomnia as the result of what has happened with both Stephen and Tom, she is convinced that something else entirely is going on. A search for Tom goes on in earnest, and Mary is crushed with guilt over what has happened until strange things begin happening around the house. Before she can do much of anything, he just as quickly takes off into the frigid evening again and cannot be found. One night, one of her more troubled patients, a young deaf boy named Tom (Jacob Tremblay from “Room”) turns up on her doorstep. Her Skype sessions with another shrink (Oliver Platt) are not helping. Six months later, Mary is caring for Stephen at home by herself, and, while she loves him, the pressure is clearly getting to her. As the story opens, a horrible car crash has killed her husband and left 18-year-old stepson Stephen (Charlie Heaton of “Stranger Things”) paralyzed from the neck down and unable to communicate. Watts plays Mary Portman, a child psychologist who lives and works in a remote corner of rural Maine. Frankly, the most surprising thing about the entire enterprise is that the wonderful actress Naomi Watts was somehow roped into starring in it, despite offering nothing of value for someone of her talents except a paycheck. The next hour or so meandering around while telling a story consisting of elements borrowed wholesale from other, better sources before arriving at the kind of “shocking” final twist that is so ludicrously conceived and executed that you wonder how the filmmakers ever expected to get away with it. It is a thriller that starts off at a molasses-like pace and spends Night Shyamalan, as made by people whose knowledge of his oeuvre is based only upon everything from the last ten minutes of “Signs” on. Not good on "non-mechanical special attractions.“Shut In” feels like an attempt to follow in the precise footsteps of M. Thursday, September 22: Thrifty Thursday – $5 outside gate admission for everyone (children 5 and under FREE), $2 Little Book of BIG DEALS, and ride all day armbands* for just $25! required), $5 Sky Eye Wheel ride tickets. Wednesday, September 21: Senior Day – FREE admission for senior citizens 55+ (I.D. Tuesday, September 20: Pepsi $2 Tuesday - $2 outside gate admission, $2 Little Book of BIG DEALS, $2 each carnival ride*, and $2 Sky Eye Wheel ride tickets for everyone! No Pepsi can required! required) receive FREE outside gate admission and $5 Sky Eye Wheel ride tickets. Monday, September 19: Military Monday - All active duty, retired, veterans and their spouses (Military I.D. Thursday, September 15: Thrifty Thursday – $5 outside gate admission for everyone (children 5 and under FREE) $2 Little Book of BIG DEALS and ride all day armbands* for just $25! Season Pass: $40 *not available for purchase online, at OnCue, or MidFirst Same day re-entry is allowed with your ticket stub and a handstamp from our ticket takers. Season Passes: $25 *not available for purchase online, at OnCue, or MidFirst Gate Admissionĭuring the Fair, outside gate admission tickets are available at the ticket booths outside each gate. ![]() Season passes can be purchased at the Box Office or by phone at 40. Advance gate tickets are also available at metro area OnCue stores and MidFirst Banks, beginning in mid-August. Prior to Opening Day, you can SAVE when you purchase outside gate admission tickets at the OKC Fairgrounds Box Office, online at or by calling 40. ![]()
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