The Shipping News: Synopsis
Based on E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Shipping News chronicles a third-rate newspaperman's (Kevin Spacey) journey to self-discovery when he returns to his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland. A brooding and often comical portrait of the contemporary fan-dly, The Shipping News is a story about one man's struggle to rebuild his life in a new and vastly different environment in a seaside fishing community.
When Quoyle, a hapless, lonely upstate New Yorker, loses his estranged wife (Cate Blanchett) in a car accident, his life changes forever. Stricken with grief and longing, he retreats with his aunt (Judi Dench) and young daughter (Alyssa, Kaitlyn and Lauren Gainer) to Newfoundland, the mysterious home of his ancestors.
In the small fishing outport of Killick-Claw, Quoyle secures a job as a reporter at the local newspaper, The Gammy Bird. With each article he writes, Quoyle's sense of this quirky community sharpens, along with his sense of himself. Gradually, a romance develops with Wavey Gulianne Moore), a woman who lives with her own personal demons. As his new life unfolds in Newfoundland -- a place of magic, uncompromising beauty and hardship-- his past melds with his present and Quoyle is transformed.
The Shipping News is the tale of Quoyle, a hapless man whose life has been filled with failure and pain, seeking to find solace in his harsh, yet beautiful, ancestral home of Newfoundland. Set amidst a wintry landscape and anchored by powerful story of renewal, The Shipping News is a story of love, healing and rediscovering ones vitality.
When Quoyle, a hapless, lonely upstate New Yorker, loses his estranged wife (Cate Blanchett) in a car accident, his life changes forever. Stricken with grief and longing, he retreats with his aunt (Judi Dench) and young daughter (Alyssa, Kaitlyn and Lauren Gainer) to Newfoundland, the mysterious home of his ancestors.
In the small fishing outport of Killick-Claw, Quoyle secures a job as a reporter at the local newspaper, The Gammy Bird. With each article he writes, Quoyle's sense of this quirky community sharpens, along with his sense of himself. Gradually, a romance develops with Wavey Gulianne Moore), a woman who lives with her own personal demons. As his new life unfolds in Newfoundland -- a place of magic, uncompromising beauty and hardship-- his past melds with his present and Quoyle is transformed.
The Shipping News is the tale of Quoyle, a hapless man whose life has been filled with failure and pain, seeking to find solace in his harsh, yet beautiful, ancestral home of Newfoundland. Set amidst a wintry landscape and anchored by powerful story of renewal, The Shipping News is a story of love, healing and rediscovering ones vitality.
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