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The Terminal (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 195 Fresh: 118  Rotten:77 Average Rating: 6.2/10
 
Consensus: Tom Hanks and the rest of the amiable cast make this bumpy ride worth sitting through. Tom Hanks and the rest of the amiable cast make this bumpy ride worth sitting through. more
 
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Theatrical Release: Jun 18, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $77,032,279
Synopsis:
Academy Award® winners Tom Hanks ("Philadelphia," "Forrest Gump") and Catherine Zeta-Jones ("Chicago") star in "The Terminal," under the direction of Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg ("Schindler’s List," "Saving Private Ryan"). "The Terminal" tells the... [More]
Academy Award® winners Tom Hanks ("Philadelphia," "Forrest Gump") and Catherine Zeta-Jones ("Chicago") star in "The Terminal," under the direction of Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg ("Schindler’s List," "Saving Private Ryan"). "The Terminal" tells the story of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), a visitor to New York from Eastern Europe, whose 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 (Catherine Zeta-Jones). But Viktor has long worn out his welcome with airport official Frank Dixon, who considers him a bureaucratic glitch, a problem he cannot control but wants desperately to erase. "The Terminal" also stars Emmy winner Stanley Tucci (TV’s "Winchell," "Road to Perdition") as Frank Dixon. Rounding out the main cast are Chi McBride (TV’s "Boston Public"), Diego Luna ("Y Tu Mama, Tambien"), Barry "Shabaka" Henley ("Ali"), Kumar Pallana ("The Royal Tenenbaums"), Zoë Saldana ("Drumline"), Eddie Jones ("Seabiscuit") and Jude Ciccolella ("Down With Love"). Walter F. Parkes ("Catch Me If You Can"), Steven Spielberg and Laurie MacDonald ("The Ring") are producing "The Terminal," with Patricia Whitcher, Jason Hoffs and Andrew Niccol serving as executive producers. The screenplay is by Sacha Gervasi and Jeff Nathanson from a story by Niccol. [Less]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Chi McBride, Diego Luna

Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter: Sacha Gervasi, Jeff Nathanson
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald
Composer: John Williams

DVD Info

Release:

Nov 23, 2004

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Snap Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • DTS 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - French

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Amiable if rather toothless fable.

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09/23/07 12:57 PM
Rob Gonsalves
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A great filmmaker doing minor work.

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05/26/06 03:17 AM
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12/06/05 07:35 PM
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The Terminal’s conclusion was as awkward and aloof as O’Hare Airport in December.

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07/25/05 04:48 PM
Uri Lessing
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It's the type of movie that would easily entertain any viewer.

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07/25/05 03:28 AM
Wesley Lovell
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Hanks is excellent and I applaud Spielberg for delving into some new territory.

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06/26/05 06:19 PM
Bill Clark
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There are story threads that play out enjoyably, and other threads end up going nowhere. Enjoy the film from scene to scene, since there are definite pleasures along the way.

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06/25/05 08:46 PM
Moriarty
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Hanks’ overdone slapstick antics and awful accent ... keep this featherweight farce from taking flight.

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05/04/05 09:32 PM
Nick Schager
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The film loses its hushed sense of 'lost-in-the-system' hopelessness and becomes a silly, 'let's all put on a show!' feel-gooder that misses more often not.

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04/01/05 09:33 AM
Brian Juergens
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What's shocking here is the inanity of it all.

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03/14/05 10:15 PM
Garth Franklin
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It seems he’s happy to continue viewing the world in black and white.

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03/05/05 10:23 PM
Ethan Alter
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The film concludes with a ten-car pile-up of sentimental resolutions.

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01/15/05 10:24 PM
Jeffrey Overstreet
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11/14/04 08:41 AM
Emanuel Levy
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The politically connotative mechanics of the plot are utterly superfluous--a good 3/4th of the plot is of a throwaway nature.

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10/15/04 02:34 PM
Nathaniel Rogers
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Una fábula actual de la capacidad de encontrarnos, de no perdernos, o de todo al mismo tiempo.

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09/20/04 08:08 AM
Alex Ramirez
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So satisfied with its feel-good status, it seems oblivious to the bad casting decisions

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09/07/04 03:06 AM
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]
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Something of a disappointment, despite solid work from Hanks and Tucci -- it’s as if Spielberg assembled all the ingredients for a great film and then decided to experiment and threw away the recipe.

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