Hi There,
I watched this beautifully made movie (Shipping News)
which was filmed in a small fishing village in Newfoundland.
It is in DVD and VHS . I borrowed it from the library
and thoroughly enjoyed the movie.
Yoong

Oh dear god it made me want to slit my wrists!!! (Although the cinematography is beautiful)

The book is a heck of a lot better and more moving... Not sure that all that rain is inticing though

I watched the Shipping News the Christmas it came out. We were in a cinema in Scarborough and the rest of the audience was in an agony of nostalgia. Two points particularly brought the crowd to tears, one was that the heroine wore flannalette for the major love scene and the other was that the bedroom where the gayish American convalesced contained a paint splattered step ladder. Overall the film made me wonder if I hadn't been too hard on The English Patient; perhaps that isn't the slowest film ever made.

I enjoyed the book a lot although it left me wary of frozen cod.

I enjoyed the book but thought the film was nothing like it!

Someone else who thought the english patient was over rated!

that and The Sheltering Sky - even Paul Bowles, who wrote the book, said it should never have been filmed and the reworked ending was idiotic. As with the English Patient and the Shipping News, beautiful cinematography, but a film really needs a plot that involves, well, something actually happening.

Mind you, The English Patient did have Kristin Scott Thomas in it - that's gotta give it some points in my book. I never could understand why Hugh Grant's character in Four Weddings would have anything to do with that Andie McDowell woman when KST what practically throwing herself at him...

Doh, and i opened this post expecting to read about when the OP's container of shipped goods would turn up, or something similar