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The Shipping News (2001)
6.8/10 from 29868 users Updated : 2017-11-24
Rating: 5.8/10
[fresh!] 55% [audience liked it!] 62%
Drama
Kevin Spacey , Julianne Moore , Judi Dench , Cate Blanchett , Pete Postlethwaite , Scott Glenn , Rhys Ifans , Gordon Pinsent , Jason Behr ,
Larry Pine , Jeannetta Arnette , Robert Joy , Alyssa Gainer , Kaitlyn Gainer , Lauren Gainer
Lasse Hallström
IMDB 111
2001
An inksetter in New York| Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home| a small fishing town in Newfoundland| with his young daughter| after a traumatizing
experience with her mother| Petal| who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life| his shipping news column in the
newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience| and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey...
Though solidly made and acted, The Shipping News is rather heavy-handed and dull, especially given the nature of its protagonist.