5 Apr 2006
Director: Thomas McCarthy
USA
2003
88 min
Finbar McBride has a learnt that isolation is best. With his only a friend dead, he takes up work in a rural town’s train depot. There he hopes to be left alone. However, he reluctantly finds himself enmeshed in the lives of his neighbours. He meets Olivia, a struggling artist, dealing with the end of her marriage and Joe, a guy with a desire to talk to anyone. Before long this trio has forged an unlikely bond that reveals that even isolation is better shared. This heart-warming tale won a BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay.