Shipping News, The
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family’s longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper “The Gammy Bird” finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey…
Title: Shipping News, The
Release Date: 2001
Genres: Drama, Romance
- Directors: Hallström, Lasse
- Actors:
- Spacey, Kevin as Quoyle
- Moore, Julianne as Wavey Prowse
- Dench, Judi as Agnis Hamm
- Blanchett, Cate as Petal
- Postlethwaite, Pete as Tert Card
- Glenn, Scott as Jack Buggit
- Ifans, Rhys as Beaufield Nutbeem
- Pinsent, Gordon as Billy Pretty
- Behr, Jason as Dennis Buggit
- Pine, Larry as Bayonet Melville
- Arnette, Jeanetta as Silver Melville
- Joy, Robert as EMS Officer
- Gainer, Alyssa as Bunny Quoyle
- Gainer, Lauren as Bunny Quoyle