The Shipping News (2001)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 111m
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Judi Dench, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Rhys Ifans, Gordon Pinsent, Scott Glenn
Synopsis:
Having brought up his daughter practically single-handed, a socially repressed ink-setter crumbles when his termagant wife is killed in a road accident. His aunt takes him to Newfoundland, the land of his roots, where he is forced to confront his own nature and his family's guilty secrets.
Review:
Bland and episodic book adaptation which never quite gets going but is full of well-known actors in every speaking role, most of whom have nothing much to do. Full of lurches of tone and clunky visualizations of what has already been told out loud, this is yet another retrograde step from the director of My Life as a Dog.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 111m
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Judi Dench, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Rhys Ifans, Gordon Pinsent, Scott Glenn
Synopsis:
Having brought up his daughter practically single-handed, a socially repressed ink-setter crumbles when his termagant wife is killed in a road accident. His aunt takes him to Newfoundland, the land of his roots, where he is forced to confront his own nature and his family's guilty secrets.
Review:
Bland and episodic book adaptation which never quite gets going but is full of well-known actors in every speaking role, most of whom have nothing much to do. Full of lurches of tone and clunky visualizations of what has already been told out loud, this is yet another retrograde step from the director of My Life as a Dog.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 111m
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Judi Dench, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Rhys Ifans, Gordon Pinsent, Scott Glenn
Synopsis:
Having brought up his daughter practically single-handed, a socially repressed ink-setter crumbles when his termagant wife is killed in a road accident. His aunt takes him to Newfoundland, the land of his roots, where he is forced to confront his own nature and his family's guilty secrets.
Review:
Bland and episodic book adaptation which never quite gets going but is full of well-known actors in every speaking role, most of whom have nothing much to do. Full of lurches of tone and clunky visualizations of what has already been told out loud, this is yet another retrograde step from the director of My Life as a Dog.