The Shipping News
2001
**½
Director: Lasse Hallström
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett
Lasse Hallström's rushed adaptation hammers home the subtleties of E. Annie Proulx's excellent novel about a widower who moves to Newfoundland. Kevin Spacey is miscast as a gentle simpleton but at least the film is shot on authentic locations.
