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The Shipping News

Year:

2002

Duration:

111 min

Genres:

Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

6.8

Director:

Lasse Hallström

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 10 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2002-01-11

Filming Locations: Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Earnings

Budget: $35,000,000

Opening Weekend: $318,502 (USA) (23 December 2001)

Gross: $11,405,825 (USA) (10 March 2002)

Cast

Actor

Character

Julianne Moore

The Shipping News

Alyssa Gainer

Kevin Spacey

Quoyle

Judi Dench

Agnis Hamm

Cate Blanchett

Petal

Pete Postlethwaite

Tert Card

Scott Glenn

Jack Buggit

Rhys Ifans

Beaufield Nutbeem

Gordon Pinsent

Billy Pretty

Jason Behr

Dennis Buggit

Larry Pine

Bayonet Melville

Jeannetta Arnette

Silver Melville

Robert Joy

EMS Officer

Kaitlyn Gainer

Bunny Quoyle

Lauren Gainer

Bunny Quoyle

John Dunsworth

Guy Quoyle

Anthony Cipriano

Young Quoyle (7)

Kyle Timothy Smith

Young Quoyle (12)

Ken James

Newspaper Boss

Roman Podhora

Muscular Man

Luke Fisher

Barfly

Terry Daly

Hunky Guy

Gary Levert

Newspaper Employee

Stephen Morgan

Bartender Dave

Katherine Moennig

Grace Moosup

Daniel Kash

Detective Danzig

Will McAllister

Herry Prowse

Marc Lawrence

Cousin Nolan

Kathryn Fraser

Daycare Mom

Nancy Beatty

Mavis Bangs

R.D. Reid

Alvin Yark

Deborah Grover

Edna Buggit

Jon Whalen

Big Guy

Nicole Underhay

Beety Buggit

Emma Taylor-Isherwood

Young Agnis

Andrew Fowler

Guy Quoyle (15)

John MacEachern

Drunken Guy

Jonathan Creaser

Paramedic

Did you know?

Trivia

The author of the novel, E. Annie Proulx, would only grant the film rights to the book upon the condition that it be filmed on location in Newfoundland.

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The Newfoundland band Great Big Sea very much wanted to have music in the soundtrack, so they "seeded" the stereos in director's and stars' B&B with their CDs, hoping that the music would catch their attention. It did, and the band has five songs in the movie, four in the diner scenes and one at the party. The songs are not contained in the movie's official soundtrack however, a film score composed by Christopher Young.

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John Travolta at one time was attached to star, along with his wife, Kelly Preston. Later, Billy Bob Thornton was also linked with the project.

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Goofs

When Quoyle first picks up Petal at the gas station in the early '90s, there is a much later model car in the parking lot behind Quoyle's car.

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Dennis Buggit's wedding ring disappears as he sits at the counter in the restaurant.

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When Quoyle goes to his first car wreck, he views a car that had gone off the road onto rocks. However, the guard posts and cable around the curve where the car left the road are undamaged. The car could not have gotten into the position it rests in without damaging the posts and cable.

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Quotes

Jack Buggit: You don't have the sense God gave a doughnut, do you?

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Billy: It's women that's shaped like leaves, and men fall.

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Petal Bear: Look, it's no good. Find yourself a girlfriend.

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