IMDB Rating: 6.70, 11409 votes |
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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...Actors
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2 Comments
good performances, but a bit dull.
"Makes you want to live by the sea."
I saw "The Shipping News’ with a friend basically because we couldn’t agree on any other film. I was interested to see it before hand because I had heard alot about the book.
It’s an enjoyable movie and I left the cinema feeling like I wanted to move to a small seaside town with oddball characters. However it isn’t very memorable and is very aware of being a film of a book.
Kevin Spacey plays a wimpy character that doesn’t really seem to come off as that believable. The best performances are deliviered by Julianne Moore as the single-mum love interest and Cate Blanchett who is as sexy as ever. It’s also funny seeing Hugh Grant’s flatmate from "Notting Hill" playing a normal person.
Overall, an enjoyable way to spend a rainy afternoon but it will soon be forgotten.