Synopsis
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Kevin SpaceyQuoyle
- Julianne MooreWavey Prowse
- Cate BlanchettPetal
- Judi DenchAgnis Hamm
- Pete PostlethwaiteTert Card
- Scott GlennJack Buggit
- Rhys IfansBeaufield Nutbeem
- Gordon PinsentBilly Pretty
- Jason BehrDennis Buggit
- Katherine MoennigGrace Moosup
Recommendations
- 63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Despite its haunting artistry and its winning eccentricities, The Shipping News is a vehicle that's still very much at sea. - 60
Newsweek
Has a quiet sense of community, a wry, unsentimental sweetness, that grows on you. It's a patient movie for impatient times. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Everything has a fusty, embalmed quality: Whatever gave the novel its vitality has been smothered. - 50
New York Post
This morbid and self-consciously literary adaptation of E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer-winning novel is no crowd pleaser. - 50
Slate
Doesn't really work but has a good cast and great craggy ocean-framed scenery. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
But, lord, the characters are tireless in their peculiarities; it's as if the movie took the most colorful folks in Lake Wobegon, dehydrated them, concentrated the granules, shipped them to Newfoundland, reconstituted them with Molson's and issued them Canadian passports. - 50
Baltimore Sun
Hasn't got quite the right sound as it did in Annie Proulx's novel. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
A limp and sodden downer.
