Synopsis
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
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Cast
- Peter DinklageFinbar McBride
- Patricia ClarksonOlivia Harris
- Bobby CannavaleJoe Oramas
- Michelle WilliamsEmily
- Raven GoodwinCleo
- Paul BenjaminHenry Styles
- Jase BlankfortStore Customer
- Paula GarcésCashier
- Josh PaisCarl
- Richard KindLouis Tiboni
Recommendations
- 90
The Hollywood Reporter
Wonderfully understated, Station Agent is a masterful film and a bracing movie experience. Its power is in large part because of the performers, most prominently Dinklage as the solitary dwarf. - 90
Los Angeles Times
Its charming story of the delicate intersection of three highly individual lives is the kind of completely personal yet universal film that the festival and the entire independent movement came into being to celebrate. And it does it all in 88 deft and funny minutes. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
That his (writer-director Tom McCarthy) strange, often funny film is so well-disciplined and deadpan refreshing is an achievement. - 80
Film Threat
Tom McCarthy’s film is never more than small, and that’s how it should be. It is about treasuring life -– sometimes even cheating death -– and it manages to warm hearts in its own uncompromising way, rarely cheating and never belittling. - 80
L.A. Weekly
Quiet and meditative, Dinklage neatly sidesteps the trope of the angry dwarf, and Clarkson, even in pain and rage, is characteristically warm and sexy -- she's our very own Helen Mirren. - 75
Rolling Stone
The three actors could not be better. Huge feelings are packed into this small, fragile movie. It's something special. - 70
Variety
A well-acted and crafted character piece that's a bit too calculated and cutesy for its own good. - 70
The New Yorker
The brilliance of Fin is that he reins in a lifetime of rage, and there is a determination in his eye, and in the line of his chin, that practiced moviegoers will, possibly to their surprise, identify as halfway to sexy--the world-weary smolder of the leading man. [6 October 2003, p. 138]
