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''The Shipping News'' is a 2001 drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning ''The Shipping News'' by Annie Proulx. It stars Kevin Spacey as the protagonist Quoyle, Judi Dench as Agnis Hamm, and Julianne Moore as Wavey Prowse. It also stars Pete Postlethwaite, Scott Glenn, Rhys Ifans, Cate Blanchett, Jason Behr, and Gordon Pinsent. ==Overview== The film opens with Quoyle's father tossing him into water, expecting him to naturally swim. The image of Quoyle struggling to swim is reprised several times in later crises. Flash forward to an adult Quoyle (Kevin Spacey), whose emotionally distant and promiscuous cheating wife runs off with a lover, only to soon die in a car accident, leaving him with their pre-teen daughter (which she had sold off for six-thousand dollars.) Quoyle's Aunt Agnis (Judi Dench) happens to be visiting when the news arrives; she is moving to the ancestral family home in Newfoundland. Realising he's at a total loss through grief, she offers to stay a few more days and help him through the crisis, then persuades Quoyle to move with her to Newfoundland when he's at a loss of what to do next. Quoyle meets local resident Wavey Prowse (Julianne Moore), a widow with a pre-teen boy. The two children become friends and the two adults become friends and then more. Wavey has dark secrets in her past; but so does the Quoyle family. The story climaxes with a storm which destroys the Quoyle home, and the ''Gammy Bird's'' editor Jack Buggit, caught in the rope of a lobster pot while fishing, is believed drowned. His body is recovered, appears to be dead, but is actually in a deep state of shock resulting from hypothermia. During his wake, at his home in front of mourners, he regains consciousness - (central to the theme of rebirth in the optimistic ending of the story.) The film, while broadly following the plot of the book, makes several changes, notably: Quoyle was obese and had two daughters in the novel, but only one in the film. He's only a timid ink setter in the film and he does not begin writing as a brave reporter until after arriving in Newfoundland. Another difference is that several characters, such as the younger Buggit family, were deleted or merged. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Shipping News (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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