The Station Agent

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BAFTA Awards 2004 - Won - Best Original Screenplay

Chlotrudis Awards 2004 - Nominated - Best Actor

Chlotrudis Awards 2004 - Nominated - Best Movie

Chlotrudis Awards 2004 - Nominated - Best Original Screenplay

BAFTA Awards 2004 - Won - Best Original Screenplay

Chlotrudis Awards 2004 - Nominated - Best Actor

Chlotrudis Awards 2004 - Nominated - Best Movie

Chlotrudis Awards 2004 - Nominated - Best Original Screenplay

Chlotrudis Awards 2004 - Won - Best Cast

Chlotrudis Awards 2004 - Won - Best Supporting Actor

Chlotrudis Awards 2004 - Won - Best Supporting Actress

Gotham Awards 2003 - Nominated - Open Palm Award

Independent Spirit Awards 2004 - Nominated - Best Male Lead

Independent Spirit Awards 2004 - Won - Best First Screenplay

Independent Spirit Awards 2004 - Won - John Cassavetes Award

Independent Spirit Awards 2004 - Won - Producers Award

Marrakech International Film Festival 2003 - Nominated - Golden Star

Marrakech International Film Festival 2003 - Won - Special Jury Award

Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival 2004 - Won - Audience Award

National Board of Review Awards 2003 - Won - Best Supporting Actress

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2004 - Won - Best Supporting Actress

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2004 - Nominated - Outstanding Lead Actor

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2004 - Nominated - Outstanding Lead Actress

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2004 - Nominated - Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

Sundance Film Festival 2003 - Nominated - Grand Jury Prize

Sundance Film Festival 2003 - Won - Audience Award

Sundance Film Festival 2003 - Won - Special Jury Prize

Sundance Film Festival 2003 - Won - Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award

WGA Awards 2004 - Nominated - Best Original Screenplay

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The Station Agent

Director:
Thomas McCarthy
R, 95 Minutes
 

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Film Synopsis

When his only friend and co-worker dies, a young man born with dwarfism moves to an abandoned train depot in rural New Jersey. Though he tries to maintain a life of solitude, he is soon entangled with an artist who is struggling with a personal tragedy and an overly-friendly Cuban hot dog vendor.

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"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows could well be the description of this rich, rewarding, funny and memorable three way buddy movie."

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Details

Runtime:
95 min.

Genre:
Drama

Country:
UNITED STATES

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

Certification:
R

Memorable Quotes

Finbar McBride: It's funny how people see me and treat me, since I'm really just a simple, boring person.

Joe Oramas: Hey, Olivia, you got a garlic press?

Olivia Harris: No.

Joe Oramas: How can you not have a garlic press?

Olivia Harris: [both she and Fin are smiling, looking at him] Still no!

Joe Oramas: Alright, you keep talking! I'm gonna go cook without the garlic press! [turns back to kitchen]

Olivia Harris: [to Fin] I'm not used to having people in my house... especially loud people.

Finbar McBride: It's a nice house.

Olivia Harris: Yeah. David bought it as a get-away place... so I moved down here and got away.

Finbar McBride: Where did you used to live?

Olivia Harris: Princeton. [glancing at Fin] I know... I didn't get very far. But I just couldn't stay there another minute. Everyone looking at me... the poor woman whose son died. [a bit of silence falls between them] How about you? What made you pick Newfoundland?

Finbar McBride: [smiling mystically] I wanted to live near Joe! [Laughter spreads out gradually from them]

Joe Oramas: [leaning over the rail, shouting] Guys! [Fin and Olivia burst into laughter] Would you come up here and talk? Seriously, this sucks! [the two keep laughing crazily]

Finbar McBride: Well, there are people called train chasers. They follow a train and they film it.

Olivia Harris: Are you a train chaser?

Finbar McBride: No.

Olivia Harris: How come?

Finbar McBride: I don't know how to drive a car. And I don't own a camera.

Olivia Harris: That'd do it

Joe Oramas: Hey listen, if you guys do something later, can I join you?

Finbar McBride: We're not gonna do something.

Joe Oramas: No, I know, but if you do, can I join you?

Finbar McBride: We're not gonna do something later.

Joe Oramas: Okay, but, if you do?

Finbar McBride: Okay.

Joe Oramas: Cool.

 

 

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