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The Shipping News (2001) — watch online on iFILM this quiet, weathered drama directed by Lasse Hallström. The film adapts Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, with Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, and Judi Dench leading a cast as rugged as the Newfoundland coast.
Quoyle is a man things keep happening to — bad things. His wife runs off, dies in a crash, and leaves behind a daughter and a mess. His aunt (Judi Dench) steers him north to the family's ancestral shore, where fog rolls in every morning and the local paper needs a shipping reporter. Writing accident briefs and small-town gossip, Quoyle slowly reconnects with himself and, cautiously, with Wavey (Julianne Moore), a local woman carrying her own grief.
Hallström shoots the film at the pace of the Atlantic — unhurried and grey-lit, trusting the landscape to do the emotional work. Stream The Shipping News (2001) online on iFILM in full HD.
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