A stark and eerie film which veers slightly too close to over sentimental - beautiful cinematography and sea imagary saves the day, but this is very much one that could have been great but has an air of straight-to-tv about it.
This review of The Shipping News (2001) was written by Sanity Assassin ! on 04 Apr 2008.
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