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Studio: DreamWorks SKG
Release Date: Jun 18, 2004
Running Time: 128 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Viktor Navorski is a visitor to New York from Eastern Europe. His homeland erupts in a fiery coup, while he is in the air en route to America. Stranded at Kennedy Airport with a passport from nowhere, he is unauthorized to actually enter the United States and must improvise his days and nights in the terminal's international transit lounge, until the war at home is over. As the weeks and months stretch on, Viktor finds the compressed universe of the terminal to be a richly complex world of absurdity, generosity, ambition, amusement, status, serendipity--and even romance with a beautiful flight attendant named Amelia. But he has long worn out his welcome with airport official Frank Dixon, who considers Viktor a bureaucratic glitch--a problem he cannot control but wants desperately to erase.
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Viktor Navorski
Amelia Warren
Frank Dixon
Enrique Cruz
Mulroy
Torres
Thurman
Gupta Rajan
Salchak
Karl Iverson
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PETER TRAVERS -
June 16, 2004
The usually reliable Tom Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, an Eastern European trapped at New York's JFK Airport until Krakozhia, his fictional homeland, ceases to be at war. It takes nine months. The movie takes years. In his sappiest film since 1989's Always, director Steven Spielberg has come down with a case of the cutes that the whole cast catches. Viktor's bad English is played for cheap laughs ("he cheats" sounds like "eat shit"). Though the film is based on a true story of an Iranian refugee…
Can a movie about a person stuck in an airport for nine months be entertaining or compelling? In the hands of pros like Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks it can be surprisingly entertaining, even as it ultimately proves less than compelling. Story The Terminal is based loosely around the real-life story of an Iranian man who was trapped by a bureaucratic snafu at Charles DeGaulle Airport outside Paris, and then simply refused to leave once he was cleared. Tom Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, a… |
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