Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx, this drama charts one man's gradual awakening to the world's rich possibilities. Thirty-six-year-old Quoyle (Kevin Spacey) has shambled through life unloved and unnoticed, doing dead-end jobs and haunted by miserable memories of a joyless childhood. The slatternly Petal Bear (Cate Blanchett) bursts into this humdrum existence like a cherry bomb: She demands a lift, cadges lunch and informs Quoyle that he wants to marry her. Unprepared to weather such emotional gales, he does. They have a daughter, Bunny (Alyssa, Kaitlyn and Lauren Gainer), and settle swiftly into marital misery. Shortly after the double su...
Released:
2001
Rated:
R
Length:
117 mins