The shipping news [videorecording] / Miramax Films presents an Irwin Winkler production, a Lasse Hallström ; screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs; produced by Irwin Winkler, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Leslie Holleran ; directed by Lasse Hallström.
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FilmPublisher number: 76839 | Echo Bridge Home EntertainmentSeries: Miramax classicsPublication details: [United States] : Miramax [Home Entertainment] : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, [2011]Description: 1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inSubject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits: - Director of photography, Oliver Stapleton ; editor, Andrew Mondshein ; music, Christopher Young.
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Main Library | DVD | DRAMA Shipping | Available | 33111007841667 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx becomes this drama from director Lasse Hallström. Kevin Spacey stars as Quoyle, a struggling, emotionally drained newspaper reporter suffering through a wretched marriage with the abusive Petal (Cate Blanchett), a promiscuous wild woman who tries to sell their daughter, Bunny, into adoption before she's killed in a car wreck. Retrieving his daughter, Quoyle sets out for Newfoundland, his ancestral home, with his long-lost Aunt Agnis (Judi Dench). Although he initially finds life on the island to be as forbidding and severe as Agnis herself, Quoyle gets work as a shipping columnist for the local newspaper "The Gammy Bird," owned by eccentric fisherman Jack Buggit (Scott Glenn). Quoyle's work soon finds an appreciative audience and he begins to rebuild his life, dating local single mother Wavey (Julianne Moore), learning some sea craft, discovering his family's dark history, and finally earning some self-respect. Agnis, in the meantime, starts her own successful business and faces a traumatic incident from her childhood involving Quoyle's late father. The Shipping News (2001) co-stars Rhys Ifans and Pete Postlethwaite. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
Based on the novel by E. Annie Proulx.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.
Title from container.
Director of photography, Oliver Stapleton ; editor, Andrew Mondshein ; music, Christopher Young.
Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Scott Glen, Rhys Ifans, Pete Postlethwaite, Cate Blanchett.
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, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change his life.
MPAA rating: R, for some language, sexuality and disturbing images.
DVD ; NTSC ; Dolby digital ; widescreen.