The Shipping News

Wonderfully crafted and authentic feel to the movie, a mans quest to find his home and acceptance. Breathtaking scenes of Canadas east coast and authentic accents and scenery. A wonderful film reccomended for people with minds.... Full review

Kevin Spacey is remarkable. What a magnificent artist. This is one of Kevin's best films. The story was brilliant. Excellent writing and direction. I was spellbound. Supporting actors were the best of the best. This film could just not go wrong... Full review

Lasse Hallström had created a number of great films that deliver serious introspective messages of human emotions, with masterful uses of filming locations and scenery to create the various moods of his films which is often pensive or thought-provoking. We... Full review

with everything a good, no excellent film should have. the cast is exlemplery as is the quiet script that, with little warning takes on a life of past and present horrors. dealing with deep grief,resentment,and self discovery,in ways few movies and... Full review

...is the word i would use to describe this movie, as most of Hallstrom's movies. (at least those i've sen so far.) Nothing new with the story - we've seen one too many characters go on a journey to self discovery.... Full review

The film cannot convince me why Kevin Spacey and Judi Dench went back home. But the story is meaningful and worth to digest. The country side is beautiful and moderate acting performances is also in the film. I prefer the book... Full review

Kevin Spacey plays this screwball of a character created by his ***** father. You find out how big 3/4 into the movie. Lots of weird characters in this small town he ends up living because he can't really be anywhere else.... Full review

Lasse Hallström does a fantastic job with "The Shipping News". His films are often heavy on atmosphere, and this one more so than ever before. The cinematography is stunning and beautiful which fits the story perfectly. The adaptation by Robert... Full review

I stumbled upon this movie playing on the IFC channell and got caught up in it. It is interesting from a geographical standpoint. I enjoyed seeing the portrayal of NewFoundland life. It reminded me of how they portrayed Island Irish on... Full review

this is a fav of mine for a few different reasons. it is a haunting story of finding oneself in the most harsh of times. based on a book, this film takes your breath away as it takes you around Newfoundland... Full review

What makes The Shipping News so entertaining and so profound at the same time is its lifelike lurches from drama to humour, from wit to woe, and from the physical to the mystical. Its a great package in the old fashioned sense of cinema: strong characters and good story. ... Full Review

quickly gets immersed in town life.The movie is very interesting and compelling.....Julianne Moore is very touching as the widow Wavey.....Scott Glenn is excellent as Jack Buggit, the owner of the newspaper.....still find happiness in life.The movie does have a great cast of supporting actors.....All of the characters just make the story even more entertaining..... ... Full Review

Fine performances and a generally kinky tone....Though consistently engaging and at times wrenchingly moving, there are too many inexplicable moments.... ... Full Review

Anyways, the film does not start off promisingly. It also boasts an excellent cast that does well, if certainly nobody gives the performance of their career here. The film's color palette is bleak and subdued ... Full Review

Based on the best-selling, award-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx, "The Shipping News" tells the story of a poor dullard who finally finds himself after leading a dreary life beset with multiple tragedies. It's beautifully produced, beautifully acted, and beautifully photographed. ... Full Review

New Yorker Elizabeth Strout has won the Pulitzer prize for fiction for a short story collection set in small-town Maine. Strout's Olive Kitteridge is a collection of 13 interlinked short stories. ... Full Article

Proulx's antic, mordant vision of human life as fodder for a wildly inventive Mortality Machine is in full play here. Some tales have the stoical lilt of old ballads of love and loss. ... Full Article

First of all, let me say that George Clooney is the ultimate hottie. He's funny, sexy and he enjoys learning Italian (me too, George!). His ex, Sarah Larson, tells Hello magazine about him this week , but no dirt about... ... Full Article

Quoyle (Kevin Spacey) is a huge, almost-silent lump of a man who married the first woman who spoke to him, a selfish good-time girl named Petal (Cate Blanchett). ... Full Article

Lasse Hallström's The Shipping News is that it's considerably less brow-beating than The Cider House Rules and Chocolat . Robert Nelson Jacobs is loyal to E. ... Full Article

In The Shipping News Kevin Spacey gives a performance that sinks from downbeat to almost deadbeat. He plays a sad sack named Quoyle with a shuffling gait and a thin, timorous voice so self-conscious that you may wonder what's happened... ... Full Article