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The Shipping News
Directed by
Lasse Hallström
R
2001
1h 51m
Drama
,
Romance
6.7
54%
61%
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An emotionally beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
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Cast of The Shipping News
Kevin Spacey
Quoyle
Julianne Moore
Wavey Prowse
Cate Blanchett
Petal
Judi Dench
Agnis Hamm
Pete Postlethwaite
Tert Card
Scott Glenn
Jack Buggit
Rhys Ifans
Beaufield Nutbeem
Gordon Pinsent
Billy Pretty
Jason Behr
Dennis Buggit
Katherine Moennig
Grace Moosup
Larry Pine
Bayonet Melville
Jeannetta Arnette
Silver Melville
Marc Lawrence
Cousin Nolan
Daniel Kash
Detective Danzig
The Shipping News Reviews
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Some novels need to be left alone. Hear that, Hollywood?
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Hallstrom and screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs, the team that gave us the spectacularly ordinary Chocolat, have concocted another box of mediocrity.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Despite its haunting artistry and its winning eccentricities, The Shipping News is a vehicle that's still very much at sea.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
It's worth seeing at the very least because it is so different from standard Hollywood fare.
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
It's hardly possible to overstate what a welcome change of pace The Shipping News is for admirers of Kevin Spacey.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
A quiet, penetrating marvel of a movie.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Relentlessly colorful and cute.
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Not really meant for kids and teens.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
I am baffled by all the negativity surrounding it, and I am prepared to designate it as the most underrated film of 2001.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Peter Rainer
The movie has a modest but true feeling for the ways in which people are formed by the ravages of their natural surroundings.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
I like good newspaper movies. Most of them get it completely wrong. In this case, it's exactly right.
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Where The Cider House Rules was one of the most exquisite examples of classical Hollywood filmmaking in years, Chocolat was no more than a trite, pleasant trifle. The Shipping News, well made as it is, isn't even up to that standard.
Observer
Rex Reed
A movie that engrosses, hypnotizes and clings to the memory long after the final frame.
Variety
Robert Koehler
[L]ike a string quartet performing a half-beat off, the team behind Chocolat only occasionally captures the story's essential tones of absurd tragedy and comedy.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Too muted to be counted as a fully successful big-screen translation of Annie Proulx's enormously popular novel, but there's a lot to like in it all the same.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Moves at a glacial pace, much like the icy land it's set in. And even a top-notch cast can't warm up the atmosphere.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
A meticulous and often moving adaptation from Lasse Hallstrm.
Newsday
John Anderson
Hallstrom injects a little magic realism here, a fantasy flashback there, but without Proulx's language, what's left is a pretty pedestrian tale.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Instead of giving you the book, it leaves you with the unfulfilled sense of having leafed through an elegant, studiously captioned photo essay of the same material.
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