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Release Date
• USA: Dec 25, 2001
• UK: 1 Mar 2002
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 18, 2002
• R2: 2 Dec 2002
Budget $35,000,000
Official Website:
The Shipping News Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for some language, sexuality and disturbing images.
Running Time
1 hour, 51 minutes
Country USA, Canada
Studio Miramax Films
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Other Titles
• The Shipping News
• Noeuds et dénouements (2001)
• Schiffsmeldungen (2002)
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Genre: Drama, Infidelity, Love
Tagline: Dive Beneath The Surface
Plot: When Quoyle, a hapless, lonely upstate New Yorker, loses his estranged wife (Gate 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 (Julianne 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.
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| Directed by |
Lasse Hallström
Chocolat, The Cider House Rules, What's Eating Gilbert Grape |
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 | Judi Dench
Shakespeare in Love, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day |
 | Cate Blanchett
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
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 | Scott Glenn
The Silence of the Lambs, Apocalypse Now, The Hunt for Red October |
 | Rhys Ifans
Notting Hill, Little Nicky, The Replacements |
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