The Station Agent
The Station Agent is a 2003 American comedydrama film written and directed by Thomas McCarthy. McCarthys 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.
When Henry dies unexpectedly, Fin is told that the hobby shop is to be closed. However, he also learns that Henrys will left him a piece of rural property with an abandoned train depot on it. He moves in to the old building hoping for a life of solitude, but he quickly finds himself reluctantly becoming enmeshed in the lives of his neighbors. Joe Oramas, a Cuban American, is operating his fathers roadside snack truck while the elder man recovers from an illness, and Olivia Harris is an artist trying to cope with the sudden death of her young son two years earlier and the ramifications it has had on her marriage to David, from whom she is separated. Cleo is a young African American girl who shares Fins interest in trains and finally convinces him to lecture her class about them. Emily is the local librarian, a young woman dismayed to discover she is pregnant by her neerdowell boyfriend.Joe, relentlessly upbeat and overly talkative, soon cracks through Fins reserve. The two begin to take daily walks along the tracks, and when Olivia gives Fin a movie camera to film the passing trains, Joe pursues them in his truck while Fin photographs them. Joe and Fin sleep over at Olivias house after watching this footage and the next morning a flustered, unannounced David is greeted by the two of them. The three forge a tentative friendship that is threatened when Olivia descends into a deep depression, disappearing from the town. Meanwhile, Emily seeks solace in Fin, who slowly is realizing interaction with other humans may not be as unpleasant as he thought. Fin tries to protect Emily from her boyfriend at a bar, but he pushes Fin aside, causing Fin to lapse back into his antisocial behavior. Emily later comes to apologize and spends the night with Fin. Cleo asks Fin if Olivia is coming back, to which he replies that he doesnt know. He decides to keep an eye on Olivias house, but when he spots her fighting on the phone with David and he goes up on the porch, Olivia angrily tell
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