2003 · comedy · drama
The Station Agent (2003)
Directed by Tom McCarthy1h 28m2003
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.
Our read: The Station Agent (2003) (2003) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded comedy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, measured, measured comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
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