The Shipping News
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Release Date: December 25, 2001
On DVD/VOD: June 18, 2002
2h 0m | Drama
Following a traumatizing experience with his wife (Blanchett), a struggling newspaper writer, Quoyle (Spacey), takes some advice from his new-found aunt (Dench) and returns, with his young daughter, to the small fishing town in Newfoundland where his family has long lived in. Living in an old run-down home, life starts looking up for Quoyle as his "Shipping News" column in the The Granny Bird finds an audience and he discovers a new love (Moore) in the small town community.
The Shipping News is based on the novel by E. Annie Proulx.
The Shipping News is based on the novel by E. Annie Proulx.
| Director: | Lasse Hallström |
| Studio: | Alliance Films |
| Producer(s): | Irwin Winkler, Rob Cowan, Linda Goldstein Knowlton |
| Cast: | Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Rhys Ifans, Pete Postlethwaite, Jason Behr, Gordon Pinsent |
| Writer(s): | Ronald Bass, Tom Epperson, Beth Henley, Laura Jones, Billy Bob Thornton |
| Official Site: | www.miramaxhighlights.com/theshippingnews/index.html |