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Metascore

Mixed or average reviews - based on 31 Critics

User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

Summary: An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey...
Runtime: 111 min
Rating: Rated R for some language, sexuality and disturbing images.
Production: Miramax Films
Genres: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Language: English
Home Release Date: Jun 18, 2002
Director Credit
Lasse Hallström Director
Writer Credit
Annie Proulx Novel
Robert Nelson Jacobs Screenplay
Principal Cast Credit
Judi Dench Agnis Hamm
Julianne Moore Wavey Prowse
Kevin Spacey Quoyle
Cast Credit
Alyssa Gainer Bunny Quoyle
Cate Blanchett Petal
Gordon Pinsent Billy Pretty
Jason Behr Dennis Buggit
Jeannetta Arnette Silver Melville
Kaitlyn Gainer Bunny Quoyle
Larry Pine Bayonet Melville
Lauren Gainer Bunny Quoyle
Pete Postlethwaite Tert Card
Rhys Ifans Beaufield Nutbeem
Robert Joy EMS Officer
Scott Glenn Jack Buggit
Producer Credit
Bob Weinstein Executive Producer
Diana Pokorny Co-Producer
Harvey Weinstein Executive Producer
Irwin Winkler Producer
Leslie Holleran Producer
Linda Goldstein Knowlton Producer
Meryl Poster Executive Producer
Michele Platt Associate Producer
Rob Cowan Producer
Stephen P. Dunn Associate Producer
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