The Terminal (PG-13)
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.
details
Drama
2 hr. 8 min.
Opened June 18th, 2004
MovieGoer Review
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.
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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.
details
Drama
2 hr. 8 min.
Opened June 18th, 2004
MovieGoer Review
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.
