The Station Agent

If you haven't seen Tom McCarthy's The Station Agent, I suggest you get out and rent it now. It's a sad/funny/heart warming story of Fin, a NJ dwarf and train aficionado who finds himself lost when his only friend and co-worker dies. To cope, he retreats to a far away abandoned train station in rural NJ, left to him by his late friend. Fin wants to be bothered by no-one, but instead finds himself having to deal with obnoxious Joe (the roach coach owner who sets up shop by the station), and Olive (a neighbor in just as much pain as Fin after losing her son). 06.28.2008