The Shipping News
- Release Date: December 25, 2001
- Genre: Drama
- Director: Lasse Hallström
- Producer(s): Irwin Winkler, Rob Cowan, Linda Goldstein Knowlton
- Writer(s): Ronald Bass, Tom Epperson, Beth Henley, Laura Jones, Billy Bob Thornton
- Studio: Alliance Films
- Length: 2h 00m
- Official Site: www.miramaxhighlights.com/theshippingnews/index.html
Synopsis
Following a traumatizing experience with his wife (Blanchett), a struggling newspaper writer, Quoyle (Spacey), takes some advice from his new-found aunt (Dench) and returns, with his young daughter, to the small fishing town in Newfoundland where his family has long lived in. Living in an old run-down home, life starts looking up for Quoyle as his "Shipping News" column in the The Granny Bird finds an audience and he discovers a new love (Moore) in the small town community.The Shipping News is based on the novel by E. Annie Proulx.