The Station Agent (2003)

This languished in our netflix queue for years, and now we have seen for ourselves that it sucks to be a talented  actor like Peter Dinklage when Hollywood doesn't have any roles for you that weren't specifically written for dwarfs.  Of course, it does mean that he's the natural choice to be the angry, frustrated dwarf supreme, Tyrion Lannister.  And, of course, it's a sign of how badly the Song of fire and Ice has gone that when I told Sarahmac that Dinklage would be playing Tyrion Lannister, all I got was a blank look, and when I said it would be in a TV Series of A Game of Thrones, she asked whether it was based on some video game she'd never heard of.


==spoilers, about the actual movie==


I wanted to really like The Station Agent.  I *liked* the slow, measured  storytelling that characterizes most of the film, so why do we need the suicide attempt?  Answer: we don't.  It's a poor attempt to inject some Drama!(tm) into a movie that didn't need it.  bleah.