His Station In Life
Last updated: 09/10/2006 - 10:23
Nominated for ‘Best Original Screenplay’ by BAFTA this quiet, good natured indie has been highly praised in the US.
The Station Agent
"One of the Year’s 10 Best Films" – The (US) National Board of Review
Finbar McBride (played by Peter Dinklage) thinks he’s one of life’s loners. He’s a man trying to live life on his own terms. Looking only to be left alone, he takes up residence in a rural town's old train depot.
However, much like the station agents that occupied small town depots before him, he finds himself reluctantly becoming enmeshed in the lives of his neighbours, especially Olivia (Patricia Clarkson), a forty-year-old artist struggling with the break up of her marriage, and Joe (Bobby Cannavale) a thirty-year-old with a talent for cooking and an insatiable hunger for conversation - whether anyone wants to talk to him or not.
The Station Agent is about three people with nothing in common, except their shared solitude, until chance circumstances bring their lives together. Before long, from this forgotten depot, this mismatched threesome forges an unlikely bond, which ultimately reveals that even isolation is better shared.
Dawson’s Creek
Also featuring Michelle Williams, well-known to TV audiences for her appearance in long-running romantic teen drama Dawson’s Creek, The Station Agent is an engaging, good natured indie about friendship and loneliness, which has plenty of heart.
Over 50 critics from across the US have honoured the picture as one of 2003's top films. Brian Brooks, Associate Editor of INDIEWIRE said of it: “Bravo to the people who had the courage to make this film! Next time one of my friends from overseas tells me that American films are all about stars, special effects, and mega marketing...I'll say, well...The Station Agent.”
"The script is lean on dialogue but sparkles when it speaks. First-time writer/director Tom McCarthy has an innate sense of timing, exhibiting an instinctive flair for spare filmmaking." - Jeanne Aufmuth, writing for Palo Alto Weekly.
Barry Paris, of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette called it (her) “Best flick of the year!...Writer-director Tom McCarthy's feature debut is a treasure of emotional honesty, deadpan humour and wonderful performances. Dinklage is the first 4-and-a-half-foot leading man in film history, and he's terrific.”
The Station Agent is available on DVD now. For more information visit: www.thestationagent.com
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