The second episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2003 features our pick for a notable filmmaking debut, Tom McCarthy’s The Station Agent. Written and directed by Tom McCarthy and starring Peter Dinklage, Patricia Clarkson, Bobby Cannavale, Michelle Williams and Raven Goodwin, The Station Agent premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and helped McCarthy shift the focus of his career from acting to filmmaking.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-station-agent-2003), Elvis Mitchell in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/03/movies/film-review-a-train-depot-more-dream-than-destination.html), and Moira Macdonald in The Seattle Times (https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?slug=station17&date=20031017).

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