from Miramax
Directed by
Lasse
Hallström
Starring
Kevin
Spacey (Quoyle)
Julianne
Moore (Wavey)
Cate
Blanchett (Petal Bear)
Judi
Dench
Scott
Glenn
Rhys
Ifans
Pete
Postlethwaite
Jason
Behr (Dennis Buggit)
Written by
Beth Henley
E. Annie Proulx (novel)
Rated 
(for some language, sexuality and disturbing images) |
`The Shipping News'' is about a hard-luck newspaperman who
survives an awful marriage to a wild woman who ran off with his
two daughters and sold them into prostitution. The man saves
the girls and moves with them to Newfoundland, where he takes
a local newspaper job writing the shipping news and begins to
find an identity for himself in the birthplace of his ancestors,
discovering some dark family secrets along the way. Based on
E. Annie Proulx's novel "The Shipping News" which won
the 1993 National Book Award.
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