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Release Date: 2003

Cast: Richard Kind, Raven Goodwin, Josh Pais, Patricia Clarkson, Lynn Cohen, Paula Garcés, Paul Benjamin, Peter Dinklage, Jayce Bartok, John Slattery, Michelle Williams, Jase Blankfort ...MORE

Cast: Richard Kind, Raven Goodwin, Josh Pais, Patricia Clarkson, Lynn Cohen, Paula Garcés, Paul Benjamin, Peter Dinklage, Jayce Bartok, John Slattery, Michelle Williams, Jase Blankfort, Bobby Cannavale ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Tragicomedy, Comedy-drama, Indie, Comedy

The Station Agent is a 2003 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Thomas McCarthy. McCarthy's script about a man who seeks solitude in an abandoned train station in Newfoundland, New Jersey won him the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Finbar McBride, a quiet, withdrawn, unmarried man with achondroplastic dwarfism, has a deep love of everything related to railroads. He works in a Hoboken model train hobby shop owned by his elderly and similarly taciturn friend Henry Styles. Because he feels ostracized by a public that tends to make fun of his size, Fin keeps... MORE

The Station Agent is a 2003 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Thomas McCarthy. McCarthy's script about a man who seeks solitude in an abandoned train station in Newfoundland, New Jersey won him the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Finbar McBride, a quiet, withdrawn, unmarried man with achondroplastic dwarfism, has a deep love of everything related to railroads. He works in a Hoboken model train hobby shop owned by his elderly and similarly taciturn friend Henry Styles. Because he feels ostracized by a public that tends to make fun of his size, Fin keeps to himself. When Henry dies unexpectedly, Fin is told that the hobby shop is to be closed forever. However, he also learns that Henry's will left him a piece of rural property with an abandoned train depot on it. He moves into the old building hoping for a life of solitude, but he quickly finds himself reluctantly becoming enmeshed in the lives of his neighbors. Joe Oramas, a Cuban American, is operating his father's roadside snack truck while the elder man recovers from an illness, and Olivia Harris is an artist trying to cope with the sudden death of her young son two years earlier and the LESS