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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance /
Music
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Director:
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Lasse Hallström
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Actors:
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Julianne Moore,
Scott Glenn,
Larry Pine,
Alyssa Gainer,
Kaitlyn Gainer,
Lauren Gainer,
Kevin Spacey,
Judi Dench,
Cate Blanchett,
Pete Postlethwaite,
Rhys Ifans,
Gordon Pinsent,
Jason Behr,
Jeanetta Arnette,
Robert Joy
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Duration:
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111 min.
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Rating:
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(6.7/10)70
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Plot Summary:
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It's a dusting about an insecure gentleman's gentleman who starts a sentience lone to receive it decrease apart in front of him. As he attempts to rebuild his pep he meets some riveting people and learns things just about his existence and his progeny's past that he would not be enduring been accomplished to flush with imagine if nobody had told him.
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Shipping News, The
Sentimental adaptation of the E Annie Proulx bestseller, with Kevin Spacey as a bumbling dad building a new life for himself in a barren shipping community in Newfoundland
What's happening to Lasse Hallstr??m? The Swedish director made a triumphant debut in 1985 with My Life As A Dog, a charming piece of eccentricity that favoured warmth over sentiment. Hollywood came calling, and with his first US movie, 1993's What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, it looked like Hallstr??m could hold onto his European sensibilities while opening up his vision to a wider audience. Then the Hollywood money machine got to him. Big book adaptations like The Cider House Rules and Chocolat dipped into schmaltz, and unfortunately, The Shipping News is coated wit...
Shipping News, The
They haven't renamed The Shipping News as "How Quoyle Got His Groove Back," but that's pretty much what they've turned E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into.
With Kevin Spacey miscast as the oafish Quoyle, Shipping News follows The Cider House Rules and Chocolat as the latest installment in director Lasse Hallstr??m's apparently endless series of unconvincingly life-affirming productions. Shipping News also follows its predecessors in its zeal to reduce complex literary material to predictable, audience-friendly elements.
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Shipping News, The
The icy mists, haunting sounds and shadows of the Newfoundland shores imbue The Shipping Despatch with a bleak sadness that the intriguing storyline and deep-felt performances down to dispel. A miscast Kevin Spacey stars as Quoyle, a dull, uninspired crew who is seduced into integration and fatherhood by the sluttish Petal Bear (Cate Blanchett), then desolate and widowed in sawn-off unorganized. An estranged aunt (Judi Dench) invites him and his daughter to reciprocation with her to the extraction domestic — a fishing village in Newfoundland, seemingly populated solely by eccentrics. Quoyle lands a chore writing the shipping bulletin on the particular paper and begins a trial cherish intrigue with widow Julianne Moore. However this glimmer of romantic foresee and...
Shipping News, The
Weakly-told, sentimental fable that has all the depth and interest of a minuscule puddle.
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