The
Shipping News 2001
- Director: Lasse Hallström
- Cast: Kevin Spacey, Judi Dench, Julianne Moore, Jason Behr, Cate Blanchett, Pete Pstlethwaite, Scott Glenn, Rhys Ifans, Lauren Gainor·
- Why? The cast
- Seen: Once or twice before. Now 23 January 2026
Quoyle
(Spacey) is a loser until hot and sexy Petal (Blanchett) captures him. It
doesn’t last but she leaves him with a daughter Bunny (Gainor). His parents
commit suicide and his aunt (Dench) shows up and whisks Quoyle and Bunny off to
her childhood home in Newfoundland. The locals are quirky and he slowly starts
to fit in and to live.
The landscape is stunning, the acting is as good as expected from this cast. It’s a bit too sweet and the eccentricity of the characters a bit forced but the film has Hallström’s kindness and it’s much better than the book (not as rare as you might think).
3* of 5
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