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(Rating: 2 by Al.)
(See our side-bar page “How Caryl & Al Rate Movies”)

(2003/USA. Directed by Thomas McCarthy.)
You & we are happy and well-adjusted.

If we were lookt down upon, however…
and/or were terribly lonely…
and/or suffering the irreversible grief brought on by the death of our child…
and/or burdened by the sadness of a family illness…

we would look a life differently.

We might even be a character in “The Station Agent,” a charming, quirky, off-beat, and totally winsome film about people finding people with whom we could be lonely.

Our story? Finbar McBride moves to the wilds of New Jersey after a friend dies and leaves him property there, upon which sits an abandoned train station. It’s a stroke of luck in so many ways.

First of all, McBride is a train buff, and it’s a train station in which he now gets to live. Secondly, it’s out there in the wilds of New Jersey, where McBride’s incredibly tall four and one-half foot stature will not be stared upon as much as it is in areas populated by greater numbers of dumb people.

Yet? The first time McBride goes into the nearest town he is given the same kind of social contract he has been given elsewhere. (christyouknowitain’teasy!) He retires into his train-station Home in a state of disappointment.

Soon, however, two potentially wonderful things begin to happen.

First of all, McBride needs a morning coffee. There being no Starbucks inside his abandoned-train-station-rural-New-Jersey Home (at the time this movie was filmed, at least) McBride is forced to step out on the train platform.

When he does, he sees Joe’s refreshment-stand van, parked so closely to him that McBride can smell the hot dogs.

McBride buys coffee there, but refuses to engage with Joe Oramus, a charmingly loquacious Cuban who for the most part is a happy man despite manning this refreshment-stand in stead of his seriously ill father.

As Al can tell you, many people need coffee Every Single Morning. McBride therefore has to buy his fix (there are other drugs hinted at inside this film, as well) from this bubbly guy who wants to engage, to make human contact, and to strike up the band.

It’s an awful thing, but we smile uncontrollably as we know these two lonely outcasts are going to become friends, in spite of it.

The second potentially wonderful thing which happens is that McBride is almost killed, many times, by a delicious divorced woman named Olivia Harris.

Olivia’s murder weapon is an SUV over which she has apparently NO directional control. McBride is not only disappointed in making certain contacts but is also under-the-radar in these vehicular involvements.

Time passes and these three sweet lost souls — McBride, Joe, and Olivia —coalesce in a loverly union of friendship.

Rent this wonderful film immediately, and see how the Very-Wounded can be healed.

(1 hr 28. Rated R in the USA for language and some drug content.. In English. With Peter Dinklage as Finbar McBride, Paul Benjamin as Henry Styles, Paula Garcés as Cashier [as Paula Garces,] Josh Pais as Carl, Richard Kind as Louis Tiboni, Bobby Cannavale as Joe Oramas, Patricia Clarkson as Olivia Harris, Lynn Cohen as Patty at the Good to Go, Raven Goodwin as Cleo, Marla Sucharetza as Janice, and several other wonderful actors, as well.)