Review of The Shipping News on Filmviews.net
Year2001 ReviewerChris Docker
(7/10)Kevin Spacey turns in another excellent performance (even manages to stop Judi Dench hogging the limelight) as a rather hopeless individual who moves to Newfoundland with his daughter. There he meets the captivating Wavey Prowse (played by Julianne Moore) and slowly the story gains rather more depth than you ever imagined it would. Spacey is the lacklustre news reporter, trying to make headlines out of very little. Secrets come out the past connected to his ancestral home is revealed and the characters have to look deep within themselves to find their values.
Rating: 7/10;