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The Station Agent

2003

Tom McCarthy

Patricia Clarkson, Peter Dinklage, Bobby Cannavale, Michelle Williams ...

7.1

9,391

Drama Peter Dinklage stars as handsome dwarf Fin McBride, who can work up far more passion for trains than people. When Fin’s train-store boss dies and leaves him an abandoned depot, Fin hopes solitude will at last be his. But his life unwittingly intersects with the tracks of two others: a grieving painter and a lonely, motor-mouthed hot dog vendor always hungry for conversation. In spite of himself, and entirely by surprise, Fin becomes swept up in their lives. [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"A delicate, thoughtful and often hilarious take on loneliness (...) It's the kind of appetizing movie you want to share with others"
		Jim Healy Chicago Reader	"The rural setting and the loners-banding-together theme are affecting and the supporting players (...) are all superb."
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Finbar is a character of particular distinction (...) [It] is not one of those movies in which the problem is that the characters have not slept with each other and the solution is that they do (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Derek Malcolm The Guardian	"What it has is a charming, sad and unsentimental centre. Maybe it drifts at the end. But I can't see how anyone could dislike its determination to say something relevant (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		William Thomas Empire	"'The Station Agent' is a small but sprawling comedy of manners that ignores the temptations of cheap melodrama to take us off the map to a place seldom visited by its peers (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The three actors could not be better. Huge feelings are packed into this small, fragile movie. It's something special (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Stella Papamichael BBC	"This is a gem of a movie that, like its protagonist, boasts a fiercely independent spirit full of discreet optimism and deadpan humour (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Jeff Otto IGN	"The greatest strength of 'The Station Agent' is its ability to strip away surface views and stereotypes (...) It's one the year's best films and I sincerely hope that it is not overlooked."

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