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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.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for brief language and drug references

Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins

Genre: Comedies

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... 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. [More]

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

Starring: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Chi McBride, Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana, Barry Shabaka Henley

Director: Steven Spielberg

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

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Dinner and a DreamWork

Full Review Source: City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul | comment Comment
06/23/04
Rob Nelson
Rob Nelson
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

While very funny and very whimsical in that New Wave sort of way, Spielberg squanders grand opportunity with the premise.

Full Review Source: Film Snobs | comment Comment
06/22/04
Jimmy O
Jimmy O
Film Snobs

... a winning Capraesque fable unfortunately undone by the realities of the time in which it's set -- now.

Full Review Source: Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) | comment Comment
06/22/04
Jonathan R. Perry
Jonathan R. Perry
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

There are worse movies out there than The Terminal, but few that feel quite so... unnecessary.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
06/22/04
Pete Vonder Haar
Pete Vonder Haar
Film Threat

[W]hat does Spielberg expect us to take from all this? Should we be amused? Touched? Inspired? It certainly doesn’t require us to think.

Full Review Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette | comment Comment
06/22/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Tom Hanks was back to his good, old self.

Full Review Source: Broomfield Enterprise | comment Comment
06/21/04
Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi
Dan Marcucci and Nancy Serougi
Broomfield Enterprise

A loungeful of comedic payloads and ironies but so stretched beyond capacity that the overbooking gave me an itch to take off on the next flight out.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
06/21/04
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

Director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks combine to work their movie magic one more time.

Full Review Source: jackiekcooper.com | comment Comment
06/21/04
Jackie K. Cooper
Jackie K. Cooper
jackiekcooper.com

This is the first time in my life I wanted to spend more time in an airport terminal, and Spielberg is just such a brilliant filmmaker; the things he does with light and with motion and some amazing tracking shots.

Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
06/21/04
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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Tom Hanks pulls off another brilliant piece of acting that is touching and very funny.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Spectrum | comment Comment
06/21/04
Vince Koehler
Vince Koehler
Entertainment Spectrum

A handful of scenes are effective in isolation, but 'The Terminal' doesn't hold together overall.

Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment Comment
06/21/04
John P. McCarthy
John P. McCarthy
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Suggests that America remains the generous land of opportunity that immigrants have dreamed of for decades, despite terrorism and Homeland Security...

Full Review Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) | comment Comment
06/21/04
John Beifuss
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

It may not be Saving Private Ryan II, but it’s still the best adult film playing right now.

Full Review Source: Sean the Movie Guy | comment Comment
06/21/04
Sean McBride
Sean McBride
Sean the Movie Guy

The Terminal is a movie that asks you to suspend yourself from belief for a couple of hours and head into kind of a movie schnookie woo-woo world...

Full Review Source: Blunt Review | comment Comment
06/20/04
Emily Blunt
Emily Blunt
Blunt Review

Seeing The Terminal is like experiencing an uneventful flight: The trip was pleasant but not delightful, and you're happy to deplane at the other end.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
06/20/04
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

Much like the fictional Krakozhia, real-life logic and believable people don't exist.

Full Review Source: Sun Newspapers of Cleveland | comment Comment
06/19/04
Gerry Shamray
Gerry Shamray
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland

...very smooth and on course...has the appropriate touch of sentimentality and reflection to make this spirited vehicle the suitable one for takeoff

Full Review Source: Movie Eye | comment Comment
06/19/04
Frank Ochieng
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye
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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
06/19/04
Boston Phoenix

Probably the worst-directed film Spielberg has ever made.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
06/19/04
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor
Salon.com

The movie goes trippingly along it’s merry way and is actually quite delightful.

Full Review Source: Greenwich Village Gazette | comment Comment
06/19/04
Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette
 
 
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