June 19, 2004
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The Station AgentBlockbuster only fans can move on. Just out on DVD and taking the audience award at Sundance last year, this is a delightful story of 5 oddball characters who fall into sync, all of their misfitting corners some how fitting perfectly together – a case of the whole being greater than its parts. Fin, a morose dwarf, inherits an abandoned train station in rural New Jersey. Parked nearby is Joe, a lonely puppylike young Cuban-American hotdog vendor who clambers into Fin’s space and parks there. Both of them meet and fall into the spell of Olivia, a 40-ish painter who has lost her young son by accidental death and cannot break out of her grief. Adding to the total mix are Cleo, a chubby little black gradeschool girl who adopts all of them and Emily, a sexy young pregnant librarian. What a team. You just have to see the magic they work on each other. Makes you want to board the nearest train.
Deep Thought: Once, when I got lost in the woods, I was afraid that eventually I might have to eat Tippy. But finally I found my way home, and I was able to put Tippy back in the refrigerator with my other sandwiches.
Today I am grateful for: All forms of transportation
Comments (3)
I just ordered a couple copies of that for the library where I work. I’ll have to put myself on the hold list for it.
hmm, sounds not too bad at all. Thanks for getting the word out.
I miss trains…they were a good part of my childhood…I did not know that fact about queen annes lace….grandmother told me they were “chigger” weeds and not to pick them…I did not listen nor did I ever get chiggers…I will look closely tomorrow…they are growing all around here now..at the florist they are a dollar a stem…can you believe that?I am grateful to hear someone be grateful…it reminds me also…I am on the east coast a different zone…sometimes, the twilight zone
blessings,
beckon