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 chan... (Full plot summary below)
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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).
Leave your thoughts about The Shipping News.
| Blunt ReviewEmily BluntThe Shipping News is brilliant, heartwarming, and divinely sublime as the cast delivers one helluva film! |
| Arkansas Democrat-GazettePhilip Martin...a problematic film redeemed by its steel gray palette and the actorly instincts of its chief players |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Jeff ViceDespite coming from the highly regarded Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Annie Proulx, the film is a generally unappealing drama that feels as icy as its setting -- and one that seems to miss the point of the story. |
| Movie HabitMarty MapesLasse Hallstrom's tone poem on the lonely houses, rocky points, and foggy seas of Newfoundland |
| New Times (L.A.)Gregory WeinkaufHallström has leavened the story's bleakness with great warmth, fashioning one of the finest films of the year. |
| The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)Mark PalermoThe ensemble work by the cast helps detract from the narrative's basic aimlessness. |
| Sacramento BeeJoe BaltakeIt's a good, solid film with soulful performances, but it isn't great. |
| San Francisco ChronicleBob GrahamIt's hardly possible to overstate what a welcome change of pace The Shipping News is for admirers of Kevin Spacey. |
| Seattle TimesMoira MacDonaldA meticulous and often moving adaptation from Lasse Hallström. |
| Jam! MoviesLiz BraunA meandering, visually lovely film that mostly proves there are some things on the page that cannot work on the screen. |
