The Station Agent

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The Station Agent
Film poster
Directed by	Thomas McCarthy
Produced by	Robert May Mary Jane Skalski Kathryn Tucker
Written by	Thomas McCarthy
Starring	Peter Dinklage Patricia Clarkson Bobby Cannavale Michelle Williams Paul Benjamin
Music by	Stephen Trask
Cinematography	Oliver Bokelberg
Editing by	Tom McArdle
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release date(s)	January 26, 2003 (Sundance premiere) October 3, 2003 (limited)
Running time	88 min.
Language	English
Budget	$500,000 (estimated)
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The Station Agent is a 2003 American independent film about a dwarf who moves to live in an abandoned train station in rural Newfoundland, New Jersey to live a life of solitude. It was written and directed by Thomas McCarthy.

[edit] Plot

Finbar "Fin" McBride (Peter Dinklage) inherits a property with a train depot on it after his friend and also owner of the model train shop where Fin works, Henry (Paul Benjamin), dies. Fin moves out to the train depot and wishes for a peaceful life. He finds himself reluctantly becoming enmeshed in the lives of his neighbors, especially Olivia (Patricia Clarkson), a forty-year-old artist who has troubles with her broken marriage and is coping with the death of her young son, and Joe (Bobby Cannavale) a thirty-year-old Cuban American who is working in his dad's snack truck for the summer.

The train station used in the movie.

[edit] Reactions

Reviews for the film were very good, and it grossed more than $5,000,000. It was also a hit at several film festivals and year end awards.[1] Among the awards the film won were:

Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTA Awards.
Best Supporting Actress at the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards.
Best First Screenplay, the John Cassavetes Award, and the Producers Award at the Independent Spirit Awards.
Best Screenplay at the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards.
Patricia Clarkson was named Best Supporting Actress by the National Board of Review.
Audience Award, Special Jury Prize, and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival.