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The shipping news, Miramax Films presents an Irwin Winkler production, a Lasse Hallström film ; producers Irwin Winkler, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Leslie Holleran ; screenplay writer, Robert Nelson Jacobs ; director, Lasse Hallström

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MPAA Rating: R

The shipping news

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Miramax Films presents an Irwin Winkler production, a Lasse Hallström film ; producers Irwin Winkler, Linda Goldstein Knowlton, Leslie Holleran ; screenplay writer, Robert Nelson Jacobs ; director, Lasse Hallström

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A typesetter from upstate 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, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change his life

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