![]() The police return Bunny to Quoyle, informing him that Petal sold her to a black market adoption operation for $6,000. Soon after, Petal and her boyfriend are killed in a car accident. Petal runs off with a lover, taking Bunny with her. Petal is an unfaithful wife and a negligent mother to their six-year-old daughter, Bunny. He becomes infatuated with and marries a vivacious local woman named Petal. Quoyle, now an ink setter at a small newspaper in Poughkeepsie, New York, lives a lonely life. ![]() Images of flailing in water and nearly drowning often resurface in Quoyle's memory when he is under stress. When Quoyle was a young boy, his father, Guy, tossed him into a lake, expecting him to swim naturally. ![]() Cate Blanchett, Pete Postlethwaite, Scott Glenn, Rhys Ifans, Jason Behr, and Gordon Pinsent appear in supporting roles. It stars Kevin Spacey as Quoyle, Judi Dench as Agnis Hamm, and Julianne Moore as Wavey Prowse. The Shipping News is a 2001 Canadian-Swedish-American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same title. ![]()
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