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The Shipping News is a 2001 romantic drama film directed by Lasse Hallström from a screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs, based on the 1993 novel of the same name by E. Annie Proulx. It stars Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Scott Glenn, Rhys Ifans, Pete Postlethwaite, and Cate Blanchett.
The Shipping News is a novel by American author E. Annie Proulx and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1993. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the U.S. National Book Award, as well as other awards. It was adapted as a film of the same name which was released in 2001.
Jan 1, 2001 · A vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News shows why E. Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today.
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A synopsis of Annie Proulx's novel about Quoyle, a newspaper reporter who moves to Newfoundland to escape his traumatic life. The novel explores Quoyle's family history, his relationship with Wavey Prowse, and the changing landscape of Newfoundland.
Dec 25, 2001 · Roger Ebert reviews the film adaptation of E. Annie Proulx's novel, starring Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore and Judi Dench. He praises the locations, the cast and the humor, but criticizes the film's exaggerated quirkiness and unrealism.
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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.
