The Shipping News (film)

The Shipping News is a 2001 drama film directed by Lasse Hallstrm, based on the Pulitzer Prizewinning The Shipping News by Annie Proulx.

The film opens with Quoyles father tossing him into water, expecting him to naturally swim. The image of Quoyle struggling to swim is reprised several times in later crises.Flash forward to an adult Quoyle Kevin Spacey, whose emotionally distant and promiscuous cheating wife runs off with a lover, only to soon die in a car accident, leaving him with theiryear old daughter whom she had sold off for sixthousand dollars. Quoyles Aunt Agnis Judi Dench happens to be visiting when the news arrives she is moving to the ancestral family home in Newfoundland. Realising hes at a total loss through grief, she offers to stay a few more days and help him through the crisis, then persuades Quoyle to move with her to Newfoundland when hes at a loss of what to do next. ........

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