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* New this Week: They haven’t renamed “The Shipping News” as “How Quoyle Got His Groove Back,” but that’s pretty much what they’ve turned E. Annie Proulx’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into. With Kevin Spacey miscast as the oafish Quoyle, this is the latest installment in director Lasse Hallstrom’s (“Cider House Rules,” “Chocolat”) apparently endless series of unconvincingly life-affirming productions. “Shipping News” also follows its predecessors in its zeal to reduce complex literary material to predictable, audience-friendly elements. With Judi Dench, Scott Glenn, Pete Postlethwaite, Rhys Ifans, Gordon Pinset and Julianne Moore.
Top 5 VHS rentals:
1. Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer’s Stone
2. Vanilla Sky
3. Ocean’s 11
4. The Mothman
Prophecies
5. The Others
Top 5 DVD rentals:
1. The Mothman
Prophecies
2. Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer’s Stone
3. Vanilla Sky
4. Ocean’s 11
5. The Others
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