The Shipping News is a 2001 romantic drama film directed by Lasse Hallström and written by Robert Nelson Jacobs. It is based on the 1993 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by E. Annie Proulx. The film stars Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench, Scott Glenn, Rhys Ifans, Pete Postlethwaite, and Cate Blanchett. The narrative centers on Quoyle, a struggling newspaper pressman who relocates with his young daughter from Upstate New York to his ancestral home in a remote Newfoundland fishing village following a series of personal tragedies.