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The Station Agent is a american film of genre Drama directed by Tom McCarthy released in USA on 5 december 2003 with Peter Dinklage
The Station Agent (2003)
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Add to a movie listThe Station Agent is a 2003 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Thomas McCarthy. McCarthy's script about a man who seeks solitude in an abandoned train station in the Newfoundland section of West Milford, New Jersey, won him the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.
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Finbar McBride, a quiet, withdrawn, unmarried man with achondroplastic dwarfism, has a deep love of railroads. He works in a Hoboken model train hobby shop owned by his elderly and similarly taciturn friend Henry Styles. Because he feels ostracized by a public that tends to view him as peculiar due to his size, Fin keeps to himself.Actors
Peter Dinklage
(Finbar McBride)
Patricia Clarkson
(Olivia Harris)
Bobby Cannavale
(Joe Oramas)
Michelle Williams
(Emily)
Raven Goodwin
(Cleo)
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