The Shipping News
by Lasse Hallstr?m
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Actor: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Julianne Moore, Kevin Spacey, Pete PostlethwaiteDirector: Lasse Hallstr?m
Producer: Bob Weinstein
Producer: Diana Pokorny
Producer: Harvey Weinstein
Producer: Irwin Winkler
Producer: Leslie Holleran
Writer: Annie Proulx
Writer: Robert Nelson Jacobs
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown; French (Original Language), Unknown; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-06-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of The Shipping News
Movie Review: Beautiful simplicity
Summary: 5 Stars
What a beautiful movie. This is why we love Kevin Spacey. A rich cultural texture hidden inside simple surroundings. Who couldn't fall in love with Julianne Moore in this story?
The climate is severe & and weather may be deadly at times, but I think that these people here are more deeply happy with their lives than most anybody you'll find in New York or London. If I ever find a tiny little town like this to fit in to, I'll never leave.
Summary of The Shipping News
Academy Award(R)-winning stars Kevin Spacey (AMERICAN BEAUTY, Best Actor, 1998) and Judi Dench (SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, Best Supporting Actress, 1998) join talents with Julianne Moore (HANNIBAL) and Cate Blanchett (THE LORD OF THE RINGS) in this deeply moving motion picture from the director of CHOCOLAT and THE CIDER HOUSE RULES. After tragedy strikes, Quoyle (Spacey) moves with his daughter from upstate New York to his ancestral home in a small Newfoundland fishing village. With a job at the local newspaper and developing romance with a woman (Moore) who lives with her own demons, Quoyle is transformed by this place of magic, beauty, and hardship. In a compelling story based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Quoyle's past melds with his present in an inspirational journey of self-discovery and second chances.Fans of Lasse Hallstr?m's truffle, Chocolat, may enjoy the director's subsequent novel adaptation, the emotionally charged Shipping News. The opening sequence introduces us to the bumbling Quoyle (Kevin Spacey), an ink setter at the Poughkeepsie News; his hedonistic wife Petal Bear (Cate Blanchett); and their daughter Bunny. But we hardly get to meet the characters, much less connect with them, in the fewer than eight minutes allotted for the scene. Before you know it, Petal is dead in a car wreck, Quoyle's parents have committed suicide, and Quoyle and Bunny are headed off with Quoyle's aunt Agnis (Judi Dench) to start over in a small Newfoundland port town. As the main story ensues--Quoyle's transformation from passive victim to sensitive lover and eloquent columnist--the subplot of his sordid family history and his aunt's search for healing seems contrived and lifeless. While Julianne Moore, as the widow Wavey, gives a solid performance as Quoyle's love interest, Spacey's performance is uneven, never convincingly at sea enough to reward Quoyle's ultimate self-discovery. As with so many films adapted from novels, The Shipping News fails to embark confidently enough upon its own course to keep off the rocks. --Fionn Meade
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