The Station Agent
| The Station Agent | |
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| Directed by | Tom McCarthy |
| Produced by |
Mary Jane Skalski Robert May Kathryn Tucker |
| Written by | Tom McCarthy |
| Starring |
Peter Dinklage Patricia Clarkson Bobby Cannavale Raven Goodwin Paul Benjamin Michelle Williams |
| Music by | Stephen Trask |
| Cinematography | Oliver Bokelberg |
| Edited by | Tom McArdle |
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SenArt Films
Next Wednesday |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
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Running time
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90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $500,000 |
| Box office | $8,679,814 |
The Station Agent is a 2003 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Tom McCarthy. It stars Peter Dinklage as a man who seeks solitude in an abandoned train station in the Newfoundland section of West Milford, New Jersey. It also stars Patricia Clarkson and Bobby Cannavale. For his writing achievement, McCarthy won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.
Finbar McBride (Peter Dinklage), a quiet, withdrawn, unmarried man with dwarfism, has a deep love of railroads. He works in a Hoboken model train hobby shop owned by his elderly and similarly taciturn friend Henry Styles (Paul Benjamin). Because he feels ostracized by a public that tends to view him as peculiar due to his size, Fin keeps to himself.
When Henry dies unexpectedly, Fin is told that the hobby shop is to be closed. However, he also learns that Henry's will left him a piece of rural property with an abandoned train depot on it. He moves in to 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 (Bobby Cannavale), a Cuban American, is operating his father's roadside snack truck while the elder man recovers from an illness, and Olivia Harris (Patricia Clarkson) is an artist trying to cope with the sudden death of her young son two years earlier and the ramifications it has had on her marriage to David (John Slattery), from whom she is separated. Cleo (Raven Goodwin) is a young girl who shares Fin's interest in trains and wants him to lecture her class about them. Emily (Michelle Williams) is the local librarian, a young woman dismayed to discover she is pregnant by her ne'er-do-well boyfriend.
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