The Station Agent

The other night I rented both The Station Agent and The Dreamers.  The Station Agent was a million times better.   It follows Fin McBride, a dwarf, through a few weeks/months of his life in which his only friend dies, he inherits a train depot in New Jersey, and he moves in.  He is content to live a quiet life.  He's one of the most believable loners I've seen in a movie.  Usually a loner character is either so cool that you can't understand why they're by themselves all of the time, or they're frustrating and you don't really want them to have any friends.  Fin was likeable, but you could see why and how he was happy to be relatively alone.   Alas, friendships follow.   Bobby Cannavale died on Third Watch a few years ago, and the episode made me very sad.  Watching him in this movie cheered me up a bit.  His character's giddiness was a huge reason I liked the movie so much.  Patricia Clarkson is also great, as the woman who almost hits Fin with her car -- twice in one day.  She's a mother who is mourning the loss of her son, Sam.    It turns out, all of these people need one another.   Fin is very cool.  Peter Dinklage is great.  This is a movie I would not only recommend to all of my friends, but to my family, too.  Isn't that nice?  A movie you can recommend to pretty much everybody?