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Theatrical - Wide 2002-06-18

Cast Kevin Spacey Julianne Moore Cate Blanchett Rhys Ifans Judi Dench Scott Glenn Pete Postlethwaite
Directed by Lasse Hallstrom
Written by Robert Jacobs

Genres: Drama

Synopsis

The story is about a man named Quoyle (Spacey), a newspaper writer, who moves his aunt and his two daughters back to his ancestral home in a Newfoundland fishing town after his adulterous wife dies in a car crash. Quoyle gets work writing shipping news as he struggles to pull the life of his family back together.

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Posted 24 years ago

Review Date: Director: Lasse Hallstrom Writer: Robert Nelson Jacobs Producers: Irwin Winkler, L. Goldstein Actors: Kevin Spacey as Quoyle Julianne Moore as Wavey Judi Dench as Agnis Plot: One night after sleeping with a sleaze, a pussy-whipped man believes himself...

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Review Date: Director: Lasse Hallstrom Writer: Robert Nelson Jacobs Producers: Irwin Winkler, L. Goldstein Actors: Kevin Spacey as Quoyle Julianne Moore as Wavey Judi Dench as Agnis Plot: One night after sleeping with a sleaze, a pussy-whipped man believes himself...

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