The Shipping News
by Lasse Hallström
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Actor: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Julianne Moore, Kevin Spacey, Pete PostlethwaiteDirector: Lasse Hallström
Producer: Bob Weinstein
Producer: Diana Pokorny
Producer: Harvey Weinstein
Producer: Irwin Winkler
Producer: Leslie Holleran
Writer: Annie Proulx
Writer: Robert Nelson Jacobs
DVD: Region Code 2
Audio: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: PAL
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 111 minutes
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Description of The Shipping News
Fans of Lasse Hallström's truffle, Chocolat, may enjoy the director's subsequent novel adaptation, the emotionally charged Shipping News. The opening sequence introduces us to the bumbling Quoyle (Kevin Spacey), an ink setter at the Poughkeepsie News; his hedonistic wife Petal Bear (Cate Blanchett); and their daughter Bunny. But we hardly get to meet the characters, much less connect with them, in the fewer than eight minutes allotted for the scene. Before you know it, Petal is dead in a car wreck, Quoyle's parents have committed suicide, and Quoyle and Bunny are headed off with Quoyle's aunt Agnis (Judi Dench) to start over in a small Newfoundland port town. As the main story ensues--Quoyle's transformation from passive victim to sensitive lover and eloquent columnist--the subplot of his sordid family history and his aunt's search for healing seems contrived and lifeless. While Julianne Moore, as the widow Wavey, gives a solid performance as Quoyle's love interest, Spacey's performance is uneven, never convincingly at sea enough to reward Quoyle's ultimate self-discovery. As with so many films adapted from novels, The Shipping News fails to embark confidently enough upon its own course to keep off the rocks. --Fionn MeadeBestsellers in DVD
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