Bold, touching, and different, The Station Agent is really a story about how you affect people, no matter how hard you try not to. Superb acting, writing and directing. Great movie that is one of a kind, so see it.

This movie stuck a chord with me that speaks to the alienation that most people feel at some point in their lives. This alienation unites the three main characters, even though they feel it in varying degrees. Only Fin can feel it in every aspect of his life and affected more brutally than the others.

A terrific little movie about the interaction of three people whose paths cross at an abandoned train depot in New Jersey. Peter Dinklage is wonderful, as someone who wants to be left alone, but Bobby Cannavale will have none of that. Patricia Clarkson is very good...Dinklage is excellent and Bobby Cannavale gives a knockout performance.

Great movie. Touching, funny, and real. It was disturbing to see the cruelty shown by many individuals toward Fin for being physically different. Whether these actions were due to their ignorance or mean-spirit, we could feel Fin's humiliation and isolation. In striking contrast was the genuine kindness and friendship he found in some individuals (who had their own pain to deal with). Definitely hits home on the subject of loss and loneliness. Finally, as the characters discover acceptance and true joy in friendship, the movie, with it's perfect timing, ends. Very satisfying.… Expand

A wonderful film and a wonderful cast. There is more humor in this picture than I thought going in -- mainly provided by Bobby Cannavale's Joe, but Dinklage and Clarkson ground the picture in a world in which you wish you could live. Well paced, well shot, the writer/director obviously has promise. I wish more films were like this one. Well done to everyone invlolved. My only complaint -- why did it have to end?… Expand

A great film. The plot of this is so real. Nothing is hyped up as would be done in Hollywood; everything is just as it would happen in everyday life. The metascore of 80 for this movie is a serious understatement. Brilliant humour and characters. 10.

"Before I leave, Fin, I have to say... You're the man... YOU are the man." The character of Joe is absolutely hilarious. I hope we see much more of Bobby Cannavale in future pictures because he rounded out the unlikely trio of Fin, Joe, and Olivia in such a way that gave the movie wonderful life. This is a must-see picture. It had a similar effect on me that Sling Blade did, but with less of an overt and obvious emotional impact. SEE IT!… Expand

Ineffably good!

This movie is practically perfect in every way. I can't remember the last time I relaxed and enjoyed a movie this much. Just beautiful! Although it would be criminal to make a sequel, it doesn't stop me from wanting to see more of these characters.

[***PLOT REVELATIONS***] There is nothing I didn't like in the splendid, artful film. Oh, yes, a question or two - maybe even a minor criticism, e.g., why didn't we know, until the dawn, that the onrushing train, when Fin was drunkenly stupified, was a dream? Or, we're all dying to know from where Fin got his money. Or how on earth could Joe or his dad manage to avoid bankruptcy with the income from the food trailer in the middle of nowhere? Nevertheless, the full experience of this movie was so satisfying, funny, alarming, and poignant as to make us cast aside any such trivial inquiries and simply "take it all in" with wonder and pure enjoyment. Indeed, the scripting was so true, the cinematography so crisp and beautiful, the oddly interjected, spare, music so spot on, and the acting so flawless, that it would not be hyperbole to call this a cinema masterpiece.… Expand

This is an interesting and, in its own way, a rather simple and beautiful film about loneliness, being different and caring, all wrapped up in 88 minutes of interesting storytelling. Written and directed by Thomas McCarthy and starring Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson (from "6 Feet Under") and Bobby Cannavale, it is skillfully written, edited, acted and directed in a soft style that makes you feel you are participating in the lives of the characters as a voyeur who sees but is not noticed. The uniquely different physical appearance of the star becomes secondary and a factor you quickly forget as you see beyond the label and into the core of the human being about whom the film surrounds. This is quality filmmaking and worthy of the 9 it gets for taking us to a higher level of cinema without our even knowing it as we experience the magic. See it....you will enjoy it. … Expand