In 2008, Ruffalo starred as a con man in "The Brothers Bloom" with Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz and co-starred with Julianne Moore in "Blindness". 2008 also saw Ruffalo in Brian Goodman's "What Doesn't Kill You" with Ethan Hawke and Amanda Peet, which was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. In 2009, he played a brief role in the film "Where the Wild Things Are" as Max's mother's boyfriend. In 2010, he co-starred in the Martin Scorsese thriller "Shutter Island" as U.S. Marshal Chuck Aule, the partner of Leonardo DiCaprio's character Teddy Daniels.