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The Shipping News

The Shipping News (2001)

Drama, Romantic | Canada, United States, Sweden

Director: Lasse Hallström

BBC2 | Thursday 31 December 2015 | 00:15

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Saturday 30 May 2015 22:35

Saturday 12 July 2014 21:00

Friday 21 June 2013 22:05

Friday 27 July 2012 22:10

Rating: 6.7/10

User rating: 8.1/10
(14 votes)

SYNOPSIS

An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey...

Actors

Writer: Annie Proulx, Robert Nelson Jacobs

Producer: Rob Cowan, Stephen P. Dunn

RUNTIME: 111 min

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