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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.
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: 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
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.
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.
Based on E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Shipping News chronicles a third-rate newspaperman's (Kevin Spacey) journey to self-discovery when he returns to his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland. A brooding and often comical portrait of the contemporary family, The Shipping News is a story about the triumphant ...
Dec 18, 2001 · Synopsis by Karl Williams The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx becomes this drama from director Lasse Hallström. Kevin Spacey stars as Quoyle, a struggling, emotionally drained newspaper reporter suffering through a wretched marriage with the abusive Petal (Cate Blanchett), a promiscuous wild woman who tries to sell their ...
