The Station Agent 2003
- Director: Tom McCarthy
- Seen by this director: The Visitor
- Based on the book: no
- Cast: Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale, Michelle Williams, Raven Goodwin, John Slattery
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Peter Dinklage – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, X-Men Days of Future Past, Human Nature
- Patricia Clarkson – Maze Runner etc, The Bookshop, Shutter Island, Lars and the Real Girl,
Good Night and Good Luck, Six Feet Under, Dogville, Far from Heaven, The Green
Mile, Tune in Tomorrow, The Old Man and the Sea
- Bobby Cannavale – Romance & Cigarettes, The Exonerated, Six Feet Under, The Guru
- Michelle Williams – The Greatest Showman, Manchester by the Sea, My Week with Marilyn, Shutter Island, Brokeback Mountain, The United States of Leland, A Thousand Acres
- John Slattery – Madmen, Mona Lisa Smile
- Why? Good film
- Seen: Once before. Now 4 October 2020
Train enthusiast Fin (Dinklage) inherits
an abandoned train depot in a small town in New Jersey. He moves there, hoping
to get away from people and their cruel and thoughtless taunting of his
stature. He’s a dwarf. He’s bitter. He only wants to be alone. It’s not to be.
Joe (Cannavale) runs his dad’s food truck
by the railroad tracks. He’s aggressively friendly. Fin is taciturn.
Artist Octavia (Clarkson) almost runs him
down twice with her car and apologises profusely, offering him rides in
compensation. He turns her down.
These three wildly disparate individuals –
all socially incompetent in their own ways, find themselves walking the train tracks
together, watching trains, talking about trains, eating by the train tracks,
chasing trains. Becoming friends.
It’s an unusual set-up with unusual
characters but it’s not really more than a film about friendship. Which is
nice. It has its strong moments but it’s also a bit clichéd. It was better the
first time.
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