The Shipping News

Name: The Shipping News
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 2001-12-18T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 6.4

About The Shipping News

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

The Shipping News (2001) is a romance film directed by Lasse Hallström. It runs 111 minutes and was released in December 2001.

The film is filed under adultery, isolation, reporter, and drunk. The film began as a novel.

Kevin Spacey stars as Quoyle, Julianne Moore as Wavey Prowse, Cate Blanchett as Petal, and Judi Dench as Agnis Hamm. The screenplay is by Robert Nelson Jacobs.

The Martian, Room, and The Thing make useful companions to The Shipping News, all filed under survival and kidnapping. TMDB voters put it at 6.4 out of 10 across 439 votes and it carries a R rating.