Starring: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, and Michael Stuhlbarg Directed by: Guillermo del Toro Screenplay by: Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) lives a life of isolation. She works as a janitor at a top secret research facility just outside Baltimore in this cold-war era story. As a child she sustained a curious injury that has left her mute. Her co-worker, Zelda (Octavia Spencer) does much of the translating for Elisa as she uses sign language to communicate. Elisa and Zelda are very much outsiders. As janitors, they are not allowed everywhere in the facility, and if they are allowed in some of the top secret places, they can only be there for a few minutes to clean up. Elisa's next door neighbor, Giles (Richard Jenkins), is also an outsider. He's a commercial artist constantly looking for work. Giles and Zelda appear to be Elisa's only two friends; until one day that is