Article: `The Shipping News' star heaps praise on his director.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

Article: Quoyle's Quest: Knots and Fragments as Tools of Narration ...
CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... piece of rope without a knot, Quoyle is without connection, a fragment ... others to be easily walked on. Quoyle is inertial. His body, once ... needed and to have a home. The Shipping News is Quoyle's tortured quest to find that ...

Article: FILM REVIEW: 'Shipping News' more sap from ...
University Wire;  January 28, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... and death. Even as Quoyle lives, he' s drowning ... attempts to tackle, The Shipping News is an unwieldy beast ... s never a sense that Quoyle comes to terms with ... supporting actors who play Quoyle's co-workers give ... efforts, however, The Shipping News ultimately forgets its ...

Article: 'Shipping News' makes for slow, rewarding ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  December 25, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Herald Staff Writer "The Shipping News" Opens today Written ... 120 minutes. Cast: Quoyle Kevin Spacey Wavey Proust ... s based on, "The Shipping News" provides many enchanting ... Thus begins the life of Quoyle, a lumpy, clueless ...

Article: `The Shipping News'.(The Dallas Morning News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  December 24, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... the public. But "The Shipping News," based on E. Annie ... casting of Spacey as Quoyle, the story's tragically ... a pleasure to watch Quoyle realize that he deserves ... human bondage, "The Shipping News" works on its own ... for his own identity, Quoyle returns to his ancestral ...

Article: The shipping news: (opens December 25). ...
Esquire;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... fisherman and newspaperman." QUOYLE: I'm not a water person ... Boats is in your blood. Quoyle works up his courage and steps ... need somebody to cover the shipping news. You'll get the list from ... Claw, what ones goes out. QUOYLE (confused): But I'm a ...

Article: 'Shipping News' doesn't quite do it by the book
Charleston Gazette;  February 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... wonderful books as "The Shipping News" and turning them into ... become his character, Quoyle. Therein lies my disappointment ... for a press man, so Quoyle is hired as a reporter, assigned to write the shipping news: basically a report ... newfound life forces Quoyle to be an ...

Article: 'Shipping News' Treads Water
The Washington Post;  December 28, 2001 ;     637 words ...IN "THE Shipping News," director Lasse ... the withdrawn Quoyle (Kevin Spacey ... writer for the local shipping news column yields an ... Rhys Ifans). And Quoyle meets and falls ... s resentment of Quoyle's late father ... outhouse. But "The Shipping News," awash in ...