An emotionally beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
Kevin Spacey put on about twenty-five pounds for the role of Quoyle.
Quoyle:
I used to imagine that I'd been given to the wrong family at birth, and that somewhere in the world my real people longed for me. From where my father stood, my failure to dog-paddle was only the first of many failures. Failure to speak clearly, ...
The Quoyle's house was dragged across the ice to a new location. It is not revealed how the house arrived atop a rocky outcropping that is impossible on which to drive a car.
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