The shipping news

Resource Information

The work The shipping news represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The shipping news

Statement of responsibility

Miramax Films presents an Irwin Winkler production, a Lasse Hallström film ; producers Irwin Winkler, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Leslie Holleran ; screenplay writer, Robert Nelson Jacobs ; director, Lasse Hallström

Contributor

• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Miramax Films
• Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Blanchett, Cate, 1969-
• trueDench, Judi, 1934-
• Ehrlich Kalfus, Renée
• Glenn, Scott, 1942-
• Goldstein Knowlton, Linda
• Gropman, David
• Hallström, Lasse
• Holleran, Leslie
• Ifans, Rhys, 1967-
• Jacobs, Robert Nelson
• Mondshein, Andrew
• trueMoore, Julianne
• Postlethwaite, Pete
• trueProulx, Annie
• Spacey, Kevin
• Stapleton, Oliver
• trueWinkler, Irwin
• Young, Christopher, 1957-

Subject

• Adaptation
• DVD-Video discs
• Drama
• Families
• Families -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Drama
• Feature
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Journalism films
• Journalism films
• Newfoundland and Labrador
• Proulx, Annie
• Proulx, Annie -- Film adaptations
• Reporters and reporting
• Reporters and reporting -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Adaptation
• DVD-Video discs
• trueDrama
• Feature
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• trueFilm adaptations
• Journalism films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

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, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change his life

Additional physical form

Also issued on VHS.

Cataloging source

TEF

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Oliver Stapleton ; editor, Andrew Mondshein ; music, Christopher Young ; costume designer, Renée Ehrlich Kalfus ; production designer, David Gropman

Dewey number

791.4372

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for some language, sexuality and disturbing images

Language note

English or French dialogue, English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1997.2

LC item number

.S55 2002

PerformerNote

Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Scott Glenn, Rhys Ifans, Pete Postlethwaite, Cate Blanchett

Runtime

111

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action