Kirpianuscus its delicacy . as basic virtue. the second - the great performances. not surprising. because the actors work is only another proof of impeccable art. because the novel gives all the opportunities for a story who mix the theory of the second chance with beautiful love story. and Judy Dench did the right role for give a form of spell to a so simple and honest remind of small things who define the authentic happiness than it becomes, scene by scene, more than impressive. a film about hope and new beginning. so, an universal story who has not the desire to demonstrate something. only remind. the taste of a rare state , old fashion joy and polite way to define the right manner to be yourself after a long expectation.

SnoopyStyle Quoyle (Kevin Spacey) is a meek man struggling in life after his domineering father. He falls for hard-partying Petal (Cate Blanchett) and they have daughter Bunny together. She sells the six-year old to illegal adoption for $6k and dies in a car crash with her boyfriend. Quoyle's father dies and his half-sister Agnis Hamm (Judi Dench) comes to steal his ashes. Quoyle decides to leave upstate New York to live in the ancestral Quoyle home in Newfoundland with Bunny. Despite being only an inksetter, local paper owner Jack Buggit (Scott Glenn) forces him to write the Shipping News and local car wrecks, real and fake. Tert Card (Pete Postlethwaite) is the hard editor. Beaufield Nutbeem (Rhys Ifans) and Billy Pretty (Gordon Pinsent) are fellow reporters. Quoyle falls for widowerer Wavey Prowse (Julianne Moore). Quoyle struggles to write in the morbid newspaper style until he writes about the Hitler boat. Jack gives him his own column.This is a story of pirates, outlandish tales, and shocking reveals of family traumas. The material is there for something with an unique voice. Kevin Spacey doesn't fit as the meek Quoyle. He's a great actor but he has to really act it up to be this much of a walkover. This movie struggles to find that appealing quirkiness out of these fascinating morbid tales.

worldofgabby The novel "The Shipping News" caused quite a splash when it was published. I never read it. I remember hearing about a movie being made from the book, and then not hearing much more about it. Now I know why. The film is a queasy concoction of human depravity, despair, beautiful scenery, colorful stereotypical characters, and clairvoyance. Kevin Spacey and Julianne Moore, two of my favorite actors, perform as if they are on Thorazine, and Judy Dench hams it up shamelessly (to her credit, she deepens up a bit towards the end.) I began to feel displaced, as if I wound up in a cold climate when I expected to be in Macondo. Magical Realism very far afield. I suffered through the entire movie out of laziness and masochism, hoping that at least one of the characters would be put out of their misery at its end.

pc95 "The Shipping News" is a fairly good movie which starts out strongly, but about halfway through edges into TV drama territory in style. It's the sort of movie that becomes middle of the road despite good performances and here and there shows some solid photography. The problem at the core are the main characters, especially Spacey whose simpleton-type character wears pretty thin over the duration of the movie. Along with that is the run-of-mill romance with Julianne Moore's small town widow. Their development is rather unbelievable and uninteresting as well as Spacey's acting with his character's daughter at times OK, and at other times painful. The movie luckily has some fine supporting cast, particularly Rhys Ivans and the great Pete Postlethwaite as well as Judi Dench. Overall the movie isn't really a disappointment with some great seasonal appeal, but unfortunately runs long.