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| The Shipping News [2002] | ![The Shipping News [2002]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411XJ8S500L._SL160_.jpg)
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| Director: Lasse Hallstroem
Actors: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Pete Postlethwaite
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (14 reviews)
Sales Rank: 7160
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Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 111 minutes
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
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Release Date: August 1, 2005
Theatrical Release Date: January 11, 2002
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Amazon.co.uk Review
E Annie Proulx's "quirky" bestseller IThe Shipping News/I gets the Lasse Hallstrom treatment, but the results don't match IChocolat/I or IThe Cider House Rules/I. Lifelong loser Quoyle (Kevin Spacey) suffers in a terrible wig--abused by his bitter Dad, snoozing through dead-end jobs, overwhelmed by a mad Cate Blanchett. On the same day, his parents commit suicide and runaway Petal drowns in a car crash. With ominous Aunt Agnis (Judi Dench) and angelic daughter Bunny, Quoyle relocates to Quoyle Point, moving into a dilapidated family house tethered on a storm-wracked cliff. He takes a job as a reporter, fitting into a feud between owner (Scott Glenn) and editor (Pete Postlethwaite) and begins a tenuous romance with widow Wavey (Julianne Moore). Happiness threatens, but the weight of an awful past bears down, along with premonitions of doom, decapitation murders and a lot of bad weather...until a cathartic storm sorts it all out. Spare Spacey, miscast as the novel's obese hero, underplays to the point of invisibility. As a Gothic soap, it has a few laughs; but it's hard to take seriously. --IKim Newman/I
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 shipping news November 9, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Well theres 2 hours of my life i'll never get back!br /Yes Mr.Spacey, brilliant as always, makes the role of quoyle so believable, earns the 2 stars , up from zero, but talk about YAWN!! All in all a boring pointless film about loosers.
 The Shipping News January 2, 2006
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
?The Shipping News? is the film of the book of the same name written by E. Annie Proulx and apparently it won the Pulitzer Prize. I?ve also read that the book is a lot more complex and involved that the film dares to be. I?ve not read the book so I can?t comment on any of the above but what I will say is that I enjoyed the film tremendously from the start to finish and found it a thoughtful and entertaining piece of cinema.pThe story concerns one of life?s losers, Quoyle played by the terrific Kevin Spacey. Shy and underachieving Quoyle is working as an ink setter for the Poughkeepsie News in upstate New York when he and his life are picked up and well and truly shaken by the entry of the beautiful and dangerous Petal. They marry and have a child called Bunny but then it dawns on Quoyle that what he has really married is a top level tramp as Petal stays out drinking and tramping with a variety of other men. When Quoyle receives the news that his parents have died and Petal realises there is no inheritance to be had she skips town with her latest beau and Bunny leaving poor Quoyle stranded. Hours later Petal has ?sold? Bunny to an illegal adoption agency and has wound up dead in a serious car accident. pNext on the scene is Quoyle?s aunt, Agnis Hamm, who decides that what is best for Quoyle is for him to leave two and set up home again in the old family home located in a remote Newfoundland fishing village. The location is wind swept and isolated but through new friends met in his new job, writing the fishing news for the local paper and the beautiful leader of the school, Wavey Prowse, Quoyle starts to rebuild his life again.pThe acting performances are excellent, as I say Kevin Spacey is flawless as Quoyle although you so suspect the role isn?t that much of a strain for such a fine actor. Judi Dench as the redoubtable aunt Agnis sails through her part and Julianne Moore as Wavey is likewise well commended. I felt the best parts though were played by Cate Blanchett as the strumpet Petal (you won?t recognise her) and Quoyle?s colleagues on the Gammy Bird newspaper, Scott Glenn, Pete Postlethwaite, Rhys Ifans and ***** all deserve a mention. The filming is stunning and great use is made of the wild, bleak and remote location that it?s film in. pI thoroughly recommend this inspiring and moving film and would encourage all to watch it.
how to get things under control ... July 29, 2005
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Annie Proulx, she has a very much endowed vein for fine-intimately spoken humor. Her novel SHIPPING NEWS won the Pulitzer Prize. The Swedish director Lasse Hallstroem ("The Cider House Rules", "What's eating Gilbert Grape" and "Chocolat") brought it full of genius to screen. It is a MUST to see the scene, where the ancestors of Quoyle (Kevin Spacey) are pulling by rope their house across the ice. The pictures shot on location (Killick-Claw, a Newfoundland harbor town) are simply wonderful. But at first you have to endure the coming in-chapter: a bad life in New York, where Quoyle is overwhelmed by hussy type Petal (Cate Blanchett), a wild, hot-blooded woman, wearing a ton of make-up and short rubber mini-skirts, always looking for excitement with good time guys and honky-tonks, by whom Quoyle has a child, Bunny. Petal soon dies in a car crash with one of her boyfriends, short after Bunny was sold by her to a black-market child adoption ring for six thousand dollars. Moreover Quoyle's parents commit suicide. In this terrible situation (daughter Bunny is found by police) Aunt Agnes Hamm (Judi Dench) appears and Quoyle is convinced by her to move to their ancestral home on the Newfoundland coast. Quoyle takes a job as a reporter for the local newspaper The Gammy Bird and starts to rebuild his life, though the weight of an awful past bears down. Encouraged by the publisher Jack Buggit (Scott Glenn) and by Wavey Prowse (Julianne Moore), the owner of a day care center, Quoyle has to change his loser-life fighting against his demons and the demons of his ancestors. Also Aunt Angie or the "widow" Wavey have their nightmares, but together they get all problems under control. For example the mobbing of an oil-tanker-adoring journalist (Pete Postlethwaite) or getting overboard without a life-belt or losing the house tethered on a storm-wracked cliff during a heavy, cathartic storm. (And at the side there is a romance between Quoyle's daughter Bunny and Moore's son, who suffered brain damage during birth.) Spacey and Moore are wonderful as they, at her lowest point, try to overcome their damaged hearts and love once more. So they all recover from the terrors of their past lives, especially Quoyle's transformation from passive victim into a whole human being is heart-felt. It is good to see films like that, just a shame there is not more.
"In me my father recognized a failed life." August 19, 2004
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Quoyle (Kevin Spacey), a New York inksetter with little imagination and even less confidence, finds himself, amazingly, married to Petal (Cate Blanchett), a wild, hot-blooded woman, always looking for excitement, by whom he has a child, Bunny (played by Alyssa, Lauren, and Kaitlyn Gainer). After Petal dies in a car crash, Quoyle reconnects with his Aunt Agnis (Judi Dench), who has come to New York after the death of her brother, Quoyle's father. Both at a loss, they decide to return to the family home in Newfoundland. The old house, tied down by cables to keep it from blowing away in storms, is still standing, though it has been empty for forty-four years, and the family moves in. pWorking not as an inksetter but as a reporter for a local newspaper, Quoyle reports car crashes and the shipping news. Though he has no sense of drama and no real writing ability, he finds that some of the stories he uncovers interest people, and he begins to develop emotionally. Through his contact with a vivid local community and the friendships that evolve, he uncovers some of his own family history, shows a confidence he's never had before, and begins to face his personal demons, as do daughter Bunny and Aunt Agnis. Helping him along the way is Wavey Prowse (Julianne Moore), whose own life is as filled with dark secrets as that of the Quoyle family. pAdapting Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to the screen, scriptwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs remains true to the characters of the novel, but sacrifices their depth and subtlety, leaving them hollow and lacking true motivation. Spacey effectively portrays Quoyle's awkwardness and naivete but plays each scene as if it were unconnected with those going before and after, and Julianne Moore, while sympathetic toward Quoyle, does not feel like a "real" Newfoundlander with emotional ties to the rest of the community. Because neither character is fully developed, the action, which is character-based, fails to move the viewer. pOliver Stapleton's cinematography is coldly stark, filled with angry winds and weather but so beautifully photographed that in many ways it is the strongest aspect of the film. Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom, nominated for a Best Director Oscar for 1999's The Cider House Rules, here flits from scene to scene and subject to subject, never really developing the kind of tension and drama that comes from careful pacing and strong, fully drawn characters. More melodramatic and less humorous than the novel, the film is, nevertheless, an atmospheric and fascinating glimpse of a unique culture and way of life. Mary Whipple
"I got used to being invisible" June 11, 2004
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
One thing is clear to me after watching this movie; I have to read the book for which Annie Proulx won a Pulitzer. This is an amazing story, with complex characters and which shows the idiosyncrasy of a population that is unknown for most of us. The movie shows how a broken man can heal with the help of loved ones and friends, even in an extremely tough place to live in.pQuoyle (Kevin Spacey) had a disastrous childhood, with a demanding father that specialized in pushing him over the edge without giving him any love. As an adult, he works in the print of the Poughkeepsie News as an ink setter and has no one in this world. One day he stops at a gas station and Petal (Cate Blanchett), who was fighting with her boyfriend, gets into Quoyle's car and says: "Let's go". Quoyle has such a need for a little love that he falls right away for Petal, she gets pregnant and they have a baby. But life is not easy for Quoyle; Petal sleeps around without any shame and does not take care of her daughter.pTo make matters worse, in a period of a few days Quoyle receives a phone call from his father telling him that he was killing himself and his wife, Petal runs away with their daughter and dies in a car crash, and Quoyle's aunt shows up at his house and steals the ashes of his father. After getting back his daughter and being at a total loss as to how to go on, Quoyle ends up moving to Newfoundland with his aunt and daughter. Here he meets new people, a different culture and new challenges that will change his life.pThe photography in this movie is absolutely outstanding, with scenes that leave the viewer breathless. The other aspect to praise, besides the great story, is the cast, in particular Kevin Spacey and Cate Blanchett. Even though the latter has a brief appearance, her role is so convincing, that she deserves credit for the overall outcome of the film. Julianne Moore plays Wavey, the owner of a day care center in Newfoundland that has lost her husband right before giving birth to their child. She does a good job in this role, but I have seen her do better in other scenarios. I am really looking forward to reading the novel and be able to determine how good the movie is in comparison to the book.
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