The Station Agent (PG)

Director: Tom McCarthy
Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale
USA, 2003, 1 hour 30 minutes

The story of three outsiders who become reluctant companions has a natural charm and easy grace that owes much to a script full of pithy wisecracks and laconic dialogue. Finn, a taciturn, train-spotting dwarf, inherits an old station in the back of beyond where he hopes to find peace and solitude but instead is adopted by two well-meaning, lonely souls. A droll yarn that has a heart-warming optimism about a group of oddball characters who all emerge as real people thanks to engaging performances from the three leads.

Winner of the Audience Award Sundance Film Festival 2003
Winner of the BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay 2004

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