Kevin Spacey
Quoyle
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Summaries. An emotionally beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life. An inksetter in New York, Quoyle (Kevin Spacey) returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, Bunny (Alyssa, Kaitlyn, and Lauren Gainer), after a traumatizing ...
The Shipping News is a 2001 romantic drama film directed by Lasse Hallström from a screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs, based on the 1993 novel of the same name by E. Annie Proulx. It stars Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Scott Glenn, Rhys Ifans, Pete Postlethwaite, and Cate Blanchett.
Plot summary. The story revolves around Quoyle, a newspaper reporter from upstate New York, whose father had emigrated from Newfoundland. Shortly after his parents' joint suicide, Quoyle's unfaithful and abusive wife, Petal Bear, leaves town with a lover and attempts to sell their daughters Bunny and Sunshine to sex traffickers.
The Shipping News: Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett. An emotionally beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
- Lasse Hallström
- 2 min
Dec 25, 2001 · Powered by JustWatch. The movie follows the experiences of Quoyle ( Kevin Spacey ), a meek ink-man for the Poughkeepsie News, as he marries Petal, the local tramp ( Cate Blanchett ), has a daughter named Bunny, raises Bunny while Petal sluts around, and then raises her alone after Petal dies, not so really very tragically if you think about it.
A brooding and often comical portrait of the contemporary family, The Shipping News is a story about the triumphant transformation of an everyman as he seeks to rebuild his shattered life and mend his battered soul.
Plot summary. The story revolves around Quoyle, a newspaper reporter from upstate New York, whose father had emigrated from Newfoundland. Shortly after his parents' joint suicide, Quoyle's unfaithful and abusive wife, Petal Bear, leaves town with a lover and attempts to sell their daughters Bunny and Sunshine to sex traffickers.
