The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by
E. Annie Proulx becomes this drama from director
Lasse Hallström.
Kevin Spacey
stars as Quoyle, a struggling, emotionally drained newspaper reporter
suffering through a wretched marriage with the abusive Petal (
Cate Blanchett),
a promiscuous wild woman who tries to sell their daughter, Bunny, into
adoption before she's killed in a car wreck. Retrieving his daughter,
Quoyle sets out for Newfoundland, his ancestral home, with his long-lost
Aunt Agnis (
Judi Dench).
Although he initially finds life on the island to be as forbidding and
severe as Agnis herself, Quoyle gets work as a shipping columnist for
the local newspaper "The Gammy Bird," owned by eccentric fisherman Jack
Buggit (
Scott Glenn).
