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Release Date: 2003

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

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

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Indie, Comedy, Tragicomedy, Comedy-Drama

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 Finbar McBride, a quiet, withdrawn, unmarried man with achondroplastic dwarfism, has a deep love of everything related to railroads.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 Finbar McBride, a quiet, withdrawn, unmarried man with achondroplastic dwarfism, has a deep love of everything related to railroads.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