The Shipping News (2001)

Directors:

Lasse Hallström

Writers:

Robert Nelson Jacobs

Actors:

Jeanetta Arnette, Larry Pine, Katherine Moennig, Jason Behr, Gordon Pinsent, Rhys Ifans

Synopsis:

An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
  • Romance
  • Drama
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73

The Shipping News (2001)

The person who wrote this story did not understand Newfoundland anywhere near as much as she though she did. An unsound theory or two hinted-at in the film. Moore's attempt at an NL dialect = terrible. Glenn, Postlewaithe, Dench and Spacey all excellent.
Buchans
October 11, 2013