December 25, 2001
Based on E Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the story
follows a reporter, played by Kevin Spacey, who returns to his ancestral
home in Newfoundland after his unfaithful wife is killed in a car crash.
Cate will play the role of Spacey's ex-wife, Petal Bear. Once in
Newfoundland he writes the shipping news for a local newspaper and falls
in love with a lonely single mother, played by Julianne Moore. Rhys
Ifans will play the newspaper's foreign news editor. Cast also includes
Scott Glen and Judi Dench. Lasse Hallström, who also did Chocolate and
The Cider House Rules, will directed.
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IMDb: The Shipping News (2001) - Cast overview and links