The Station Agent
About halfway through the film, Anjie and I looked at each other and thought, add this to the list of stories I'd like to emulate as a film writer. Quirky is not necessarily a virtue, but detail of character is what creates humanitiy, and here it is in full glory. Peter Dinklage plays Finbar McBride, a railroad expert who inherits a New Jersey railroad depot and retires there to escape the all-too-predictable difficulty of getting through big city life as a dwarf. Dinklage's performance is heartbreaking and inspiring all at the same time. The story gathers comic steam as "Fin" meets Joe (played by Bobby Cannavalle), the run-at-the-mouth driver of the vending truck doing business just outside his depot, and Olivia (Patricia Clarkson), a grieving mother who runs Fin off the road not once, but twice...on the same day. Another film about the creation of unlikely community as these three characters take a simple and unusual journey into friendship and interdependance.
Well worth the time...
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