It's a film about an insecure man who starts a life only to see it fall apart in front of him. As he attempts to rebuild his life he meets some interesting people and learns things about his past and his family's past that he would not have been able to even imagine if nobody had told him.
Shipping News, The Sentimental adaptation of the E Annie Proulx bestseller, with Kevin Spacey as a bumbling dad building a new life for himself in a barren shipping community in Newfoundland
What's happening to Lasse Hallstr??m? The Swedish director made a triumphant debut in 1985 with My Life As A Dog, a charming piece of eccentricity that favoured warmth over sentiment. Hollywood came calling, and with his first US movie, 1993's What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, it looked like Hallstr??m could hold onto his European sensibilities while opening up his vision to a wider audience. Then the Hollywood money machine got to him. Big book adaptations like The Cider House Rules...
They haven't renamed The Shipping News as "How Quoyle Got His Groove Back," but that's pretty much what they've turned E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into.
With Kevin Spacey miscast as the oafish Quoyle, Shipping News follows The Cider House Rules and Chocolat as the latest installment in director Lasse Hallstr??m's apparently endless series of unconvincingly life-affirming productions. Shipping News also follows its predecessors in its zeal to reduce complex literary material to predictable, audience-friendly elements.
It's a given that a book as eccentric, poetic and individual as Proulx's could never be accurately reproduced on the...
What's happening to Lasse Hallstr?m? The Swedish director made a triumphant debut in 1985 with My Life As A Dog, a charming piece of eccentricity that favoured warmth over sentiment. Hollywood came calling, and with his first US movie, 1993's What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, it looked like Hallstr?m could hold onto his European sensibilities while opening up his vision to a wider audience. Then the Hollywood money machine got to him. Big book adaptations like The Cider House Rules and Chocolat dipped into schmaltz, and unfortunately, The Shipping News is coated with the same syrupy gloss.
What made E Annie Proulx's story of an awkward man finding himself in a Newfo...
Shipping News, The
The icy mists, haunting sounds and shadows of the Newfoundland shores imbue The Shipping News with a bleak sadness that the intriguing storyline and strong performances fail to dispel. A miscast Kevin Spacey stars as Quoyle, a dull, uninspired man who is seduced into marriage and fatherhood by the sluttish Petal Bear (Cate Blanchett), then deserted and widowed in short order. An estranged aunt (Judi Dench) invites him and his daughter to return with her to the family home — a fishing village in Newfoundland, seemingly populated solely by eccentrics. Quoyle lands a job writing the shipping news on the local paper and begins a tentative love affair with widow Juliann...
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