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Studio: Miramax Films
Release Date: Dec 25, 2001
Running Time: 111 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
A man makes a journey to self-discovery when he returns to his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland. After the death of his estranged wife, Quoyle's fortunes begin to change when his long lost Aunt Agnis convinces him to head north with his daughter Bunny. He relocates to the small coastal village of Killick-Claw. Now, in a place where life is as rough as the weather and secrets are as vast as the ocean, Quoyle lands a job as a reporter for the local newspaper. He reports on the shipping news as he simultaneously attempts to adjust to his new life and surroundings. In the course of his new career, he confronts private demons, discovers dark family mysteries and finds love with a lonely single mother who has a secret of her own.
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Wavey Prowse
Agnis Hamm
Petal Bear
Tert Card
Jack Buggit
Beaufield Nutbeem
Billy Pretty
Dennis Buggit
Bayonet Melville
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reviews
A man, beaten and eroded by the forces of life, goes to live at the old family homestead in Newfoundland, itself beaten and eroded by the forces of nature, to find his inner strength. Story A mild-mannered ink setter, Quoyle's (Kevin Spacey) woeful existence is turned on its head by the promiscuous Petal (Cate Blanchett), who suddenly marries Quoyle and bears his daughter, Bunny. Finding marital life boring, Petal eventually runs away, selling Bunny on the black market to fund her escape. (Petal… 
January 4, 2002
Some novels need to be left alone. Hear that, Hollywood? Annie Proulx's 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner uses language as bait. Hard, short sentences grow into flowing ones, and suddenly we are hooked by eccentric characters trying to redeem their blasted lives in the revivifying chill of Newfoundland. In the film, directed by Lasse Hallstrom and scripted by Robert Nelson Jacobs - the perpetrators of Chocolat - the language is leaden, the pace glacial and the characters indecipherable. It's easier to…
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