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- Starting OverRedemptionParents and ChildrenHopesLove and RomanceMind and SoulFamily RelationsSingle Parent more...
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- DramaMelodramaRomance
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- Contemporary21st Century
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- CanadaIslandSmall Town
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The Shipping News, 2001
English
USA
Profile of The Shipping News
The Shipping News can be described as sentimental, atmospheric, and captivating. The plot revolves around starting over, redemption, and hopes. The main genres are drama and romance. In terms of style, The Shipping News is a melodrama. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. The Shipping News is set, at least in part, on an island and in a small town. It is located in Canada. It takes place in contemporary times. The Shipping News is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being an award winner. Note that it involves profanity.
Summary of The Shipping News
Lasse Hallstrom (CHOCOLAT, MY LIFE AS A DOG) presents this strong, quiet, chillingly deep adaptation of the popular novel by E. Annie Proulx. In a fishing port set in the Canadian province of Newfoundland, newspaper journalist Quoyle (Kevin Spacey), his young daughter Bunny (Alyssa Gainer), and his stern aunt Agnis Hamm (Dame Judi Dench) have reclaimed their ancestral home, which stood vacant for 40 years perched over the raging sea on the edge of a cliff. The fresh air and the mundane routine of the sleepy village act as a balm for Quoyle's wounds. Having grown up with unhappy parents who cautioned him that he'd never amount to anything, Quoyle thought he'd finally found a stroke of luck when he fell in love with Petal (a surprisingly slutty but no less beautiful Cate Blanchett), Bunny's mother. However, after Petal's sudden death, and the simultaneous passing of his loveless parents, Quoyle's migration from downtrodden Poughkeepsie, N.Y. to coastal Canada is his salvation. As Quoyle gains confidence and pride daily through his coworkers at the tiny newspaper the Gammy Bird, through his friendship with Wavey (a lovely Julianne Moore), and through his reconciliation with some spooky family secrets from the distant past, Quoyle, Bunny, and Agnis slowly find new direction, new hope, and the beginnings of a new life.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 25 December 2001 |
| Runtime: | 111 min |
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as Quoyle
as Wavey Prowse
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Chicago Tribune
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- by: Michael Wilmington
San Francisco Chronicle
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- by: Bob Graham
