Best movie of this year hands down!

Thanks for the memories!

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

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. The Station Agent benefits from excellent work from Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale and Michelle Williams. The film's script is simple and so it's it's story, the characters are very likable and funny too, the movie showcases great messages also about friendship, love and basically the meaning of not being alone in life and continuing moving forward despite the problems that we're facing. Definitely an indie film that doesn't disappoint and people will see that for sure. (A+)

...to get back to the moment when I got the idea of watching this film, so I can slap myself out of it. I can't believe the scoring this movie is getting here. It's a total bore-fest of a story about three boring people living a boring life in a boring place where the hype of the day is spotting trains passing by. Wow, big deal. There is a good way of making a movie about trainspotting, as we all know, and it's not this one. The main character is totally unlikable. Rude, unfriendly, he hardly speaks to anybody, often leaving questions unanswered, or answered with a mere monosyllabic word. The other two characters add nothing to the enjoyability of the show. There is no story, no plot, just nothing but scattered, annoying chatting and a lot of trainspotting. The few moments of drama come far too late, when the emotional attachment to the characters is ultimately compromised, and anyway are not depicted with enough intensity. There's just nothing that works here. If you're out of sleeping pills, then watch this movie. Otherwise, avoid it like the plague.

"The Station Agent" is a warming and funny comedy-drama centered on the many ways we can become and obtain friendship and the many wonderful elements that come about when you find friends when you least expect it. In life, friendship is based primarily by virtue of choice. The people who we select as friends will always be the turning point to our choices in life. Our lifetime is very short and in many instances, friendship doesn't last forever. But with our short time on Earth, I must ask you, who do you want to spend your limited time with? Who do you want to grow old with? No one can really decide that for you, you're on your own in selecting the friends you hang around with. Sure our parents may or may not approve who our friends are, but that should never set you back on the people who you find comfort and reassurance because you may never find that bond again once they or you decide to move on. It's quite obscure to see a movie that deeply examines the essence of finding friends which you never see very much in comedies, action, drama, horror and suspense films. It's the simple pleasures like "The Station Agent" that reveal a plethora of unity within the newly developed friendships within the characters. And in films like these we as the audience feel very involved as these characters tend to grow on you. We laugh and we cry towards their anecdotes as we listen to their very words that come out as we give them the feeling that they exist on this Earth and give them that feeling of importance because that's what friends are all about. Connection is a principal formula to friendship as it temporarily eases pain, stress, tension and most of all lonesomeness. "The Station Agent" is a film where its focal concentration is the evolution of friendship by the human condition and the wonderful things that come with it. By spending 89 minutes with the three main character (Peter Dinklage, Bobby Cannavale and Patricia Clarkson) we face issues that involve trains, grief, reclusive ways, living in silence and the multitude of intimate bonding that brings friendships together. It truly is a feel-good movie showing how you could be friends while refraining from being judgmental about it. Finbar McBride (Dinklage) is a diminutive employee at a model train shop in the New Jersey area. He really loves his job, but he's a very taciturn guy who really has no one really to consider a friend except for his boss, Henry Styles (Paul Benjamin), who quite the loner himself. Suddenly without warning, Mr. Styles dies and the hobby shop will not operate. Fin gets an abandoned train depot located in the Newfoundland area in West Milford, New Jersey and prepares for an eternal life of pure solitude. He gathers his few belongings and decides to move into the area away from humanity where he won't be ostracized by his diminutive size. When he finally arrives at his newly inherited estate, Fin observes his new place for retreat. It's next to the tracks that are still running. There's a couch to sleep on. There is no phone while water and electricity have yet to be installed. But other than that, Fin has found his paradise. The next morning, something magical happens to Fin. He is awakened by a Cuban-born hot dog vendor named Joe Oramas (Bobby Cannavale), a talkative young man who's food truck is parked right next to Fin's depot. While Joe's a chatty individual, Fin is a man of little saying while Joe's struggling in trying to befriend Fin to the point at times being a bit overbearing. The other visitor that joins the fray is an artist battling depression named Olivia Harris (Patricia Clarkson). She feels bad for twice nearly crushing Fin and apologizes for her careless driving by offering him a bottle of booze.To get away from these strangers, Fin walks along the railroad tracks to scout the timing of the trains. But their strive for attention slowly brings him together with these people. At the same time, they understand when he needs his time for solitude, while he begins that like him, these individuals are also faced with pain and grief. Fin begins to become acquainted by the local librarian Emily (Michelle Williams) and a kindly young girl named Cleo (Raven Goodwin) who tries to persuade Fin to come to her school to discuss his love for trains. In his debut as screenwriter and director, Tom McCarthy successfully created the essential foibles and quirkiness toward each character which makes them very interesting all the while making them someone you could relate to. Fin is an introverted outcast, but has a low-key appeal towards the extroverted Joe and the neurotic and frazzled Olivia. They try to break Fin out of his shell and realize he has many traits that can get people's attention.This trifecta eventually stir some sizzling fun and engaging moments that have been dormant for quite a very long time. The performances by Dinklage, Cannavale and Clarkson are will keep you engaged and we hope that with these three bonding, we hope that they will change their ways they see life and we truly hope for the better of these three individuals after the credits roll. They learn that with friendship, we can recover from our inner demons and they can find it in themselves that even if everybody else has forgotten about them, they at least have each other to depend on.

The Station Agent is a Movie that brings so many different yet simple aspects of a quiet life in the middle of 'nowhere' so to speak. The main characters of the movie- Finbar,Joey and Olivia all live or live and work in the small town/village of Newfoundland, NJ. This is a heart warming story about people who meet each other either through accidents or circumstances that they really can't control and fall into friendship that definitely goes beyond words. I really can't put one actor or actress above the other among the above mentioned three. Many people underestimate the role Joey plays, but in my opinion Joey is the glue that keeps them together. 'He is full of life' as Olivia observes. The movie has a fantastic location,soundtrack and overall cinematography. This movie is definitely a fantastic work in just about every aspect and it certainly deserves a 10. Very highly recommended.