The Shipping News (1993)

Newfoundland's coast determines how people work, travel, tell stories and endure the weather. Quoyle's arrival with his daughters brings a damaged family into a community whose knowledge is practical as well as picturesque. Proulx makes the newspaper, the harbour and the exposed family house part of the same social terrain. Its dark comedy includes abuse and bereavement; the landscape offers possibilities for belonging without becoming a cure for everything.