title: Shackled (2012 British film)
text: # Shackled (2012 British film)
  
  Shackled is a 2012 short drama-thriller film directed by Nour Wazzi and starring Emilia Clarke and Hadley Fraser.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Held captive by a circus in 1950s Louisiana, Malu is frantically rescued from her shackles by her husband. As she waits anxiously in the darkness for her chance to escape, a disturbing truth she's hidden away seeps back into her consciousness.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Emilia Clarke as Malu
  * Hadley Fraser as Jesse
  
  ## Reception
  
  One reviewer said of the film, "Although I never really understood what she was running away from the glossy almost fantasy like cinematography kept me watching until the very end."
  
  