Kevin Spacey
Quoyle
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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.
- $25 million
- December 18, 2001
- $38 million
- Christopher Young
While struggling to build a new life for himself, restore the derelict house, and care for Bunny, Quoyle meets Wavey Prowse (Julianne Moore), a widow whose young son, Harry, has a learning disability. Wavey and Quoyle gradually develop a deepening relationship.
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.
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.
- Novel
- E. Annie Proulx
- 1993
- Scribner
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.
- Planktonrules
- 2 min
- Lasse Hallström
Shipping News, The (2001) Based on E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, the story traces one man's (Spacey) extraordinary journey to self-discovery when he returns to his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland.
Dec 18, 2001 · 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 daughter, Bunny, into adoption before she's killed in a car wreck.
