Shipping News (The)
- Director: Lasse Hallström
- Writer: Annie Proulx; Robert Nelson Jacobs
- Producer: Rob Cowan; Stephen P. Dunn
CGiii Comment
From the writer of Brokeback Mountain...
Nothing particularly earth-shattering...except from the usual fine performances from a rather grand cast.
A pleasant enough little film.....good for a rainy day.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle (Kevin Spacey) returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, Bunny (Alyssa, Kaitlyn, and Lauren Gainer), after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal (Cate Blanchett), 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 Prowse (Julianne Moore).
Cast & Characters
Kevin Spacey as Quoyle;
Julianne Moore as Wavey Prowse;
Judi Dench as Agnis Hamm;
Cate Blanchett as Petal;
Pete Postlethwaite as Tert Card;
Scott Glenn as Jack Buggit;
Rhys Ifans as Beaufield Nutbeem;
Gordon Pinsent as Billy Pretty;
Jason Behr as Dennis Buggit;
Larry Pine as Bayonet Melville