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The Terminal

Play trailer 2:24 Poster for The Terminal PG-13 Released Jun 18, 2004 2h 8m Comedy Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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When Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), an Eastern European tourist, arrives at JFK in New York, war breaks out in his country and he finds himself caught up in international politics. Because of the war, the Department of Homeland Security won't let him enter or exit the United States. He's trapped at JFK -- indefinitely. While living at the airport, Viktor falls for a flight attendant (Catherine Zeta-Jones). She may have feelings for him too. But what good is love if Viktor can't leave the terminal?
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The Terminal transcends its flaws through the sheer virtue of its crowd-pleasing message and a typically solid star turn from Tom Hanks.

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Namrata Joshi Outlook Spielberg turns the sublime into the banal, at times taking it to the verge of ridiculous. Rated: 2/4 Jan 7, 2019 Full Review Nell Minow Common Sense Media Lovely and well worth sharing with your family. Rated: 4/5 Dec 29, 2010 Full Review Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness Hanks' overdone slapstick antics and awful accent ... keep this featherweight farce from taking flight. May 4, 2005 Full Review Dan Buffa Ramble On With Buffa (Substack) What builds out from there is one man having an extraordinary effect on a group of people who never even knew he existed. Spielberg’s film deftly told a tale about the immediate prejudice towards immigrants. Dec 29, 2024 Full Review Alan Jones Radio Times While the performances are appealing, Spielberg relies too heavily on the airport-terminal-as-microcosm-of-society angle and the saccharine sentimentality gets piled on as the credibility decreases. Rated: 3/5 Apr 12, 2024 Full Review Akos Peterbencze Vulnerable Man (Medium) Although it is way too idealistic, The Terminal works because the characters’ idiosyncrasies are still relevant today. The script conveys that universal bond immigrants form between each other, given their social status in a foreign country. Jul 22, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

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Daniel M Just saw it for the first time and it was a good pleasant film to watch to spend the evening. The story was great with a great cast as well. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/26/25 Full Review Black H An answer in very few possibilities. The direction work is good and making a film on such a subject is a lot of work. I feel that more such movies should be made. Tom Hank has done it. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/24/25 Full Review Alexsander F Great film, the famous ‘doing a lot with a little’, Tom Hanks is brilliant in the role. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/22/25 Full Review mark g This was really a poor film. Spielberg is often cut slack because of his library of work. But this was a silly and pretentious effort. And no, Hanks was not good in it, he was quite bad. I get it, "feel good," but this was more "felt stupid." Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/17/25 Full Review Fantasia 2 It's an underrated movie of steven Spielberg . An good emotional , funny , dramatic movie . Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/10/25 Full Review Jo P Inane and mawkish I don’t think this movie worked. It lumbered through a series of disconnected scenes without building the storyline and took far too long about it. It didn’t hang together emotionally or logically so the sentimentality was all the worse for being incomprehensible. Some of the acting was good, some was fairly over the top. The score was peppy and annoying. I found the film childish and unsatisfying and wish I hadn’t watched it. Sorry to sound grumpy but anything impressive about the set and camerawork is beside the point because of the vacuum at the heart of the screenplay. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis When Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), an Eastern European tourist, arrives at JFK in New York, war breaks out in his country and he finds himself caught up in international politics. Because of the war, the Department of Homeland Security won't let him enter or exit the United States. He's trapped at JFK -- indefinitely. While living at the airport, Viktor falls for a flight attendant (Catherine Zeta-Jones). She may have feelings for him too. But what good is love if Viktor can't leave the terminal?
Director
Steven Spielberg
Producer
Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter
Sacha Gervasi, Jeff Nathanson
Distributor
DreamWorks SKG
Production Co
DreamWorks SKG, Amblin Entertainment
Rating
PG-13 (Drug Reference|Brief Language)
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 18, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 1, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA)
$77.0M
Runtime
2h 8m
Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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