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Dec 25, 2001 · 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. About this time he finds a message on his answering machine from his father ...
Jan 11, 2002 · The Shipping News. R Released Jan 11, 2002 1 hr. 51 min. Drama List. 54% 131 Reviews Tomatometer 61% 10,000+ Ratings Audience Score Traces one man's extraordinary journey toward self -discovery ...
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- Lasse Hallström
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- Kevin Spacey
The Shipping News (film) The Shipping News. (film) 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.
- $25 million
- December 18, 2001
- $38 million
- Christopher Young
Kevin Spacey is earnest but unconvincing as Quoyle, the novel's sad-sack protagonist who moves to Newfoundland with his aunt (Judi Dench) and takes a job writing the shipping news for a local ...
Our review: Parents say: ( 1 ): Kids say: Not yet rated Rate movie. Screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs and director Lasse Hallstrom have done a masterful job of adapting Proulx's story, with cinematic equivalents for some of the book's best prose. Kevin Spacey, one of the most brilliant actors ever to appear in movies, provides Quoyle with ...
- Miramax
- Lasse Hallstrom
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 15, 2002. The ensemble work by the cast helps detract from the narrative's basic aimlessness. Full Review | Sep 1, 2002. The book is better----Long awaited ...
The Shipping News (2001): Dir: Lasse Hallstrom / Cast: Kevin Spacey, Judi Dench, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Pete Postlethwaite: Intriguing title symbolizes persistence. After his bar hopping wife is found dead in an auto accident, Kevin Spacey and his daughter go live with an aunt in a house that bares a painful past.
