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The Terminal

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Original title: The Terminal
Year: 2004
Running time: 128 min.
Country: United States
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter: Sacha Gervasi, Jeff Nathanson. Story: Andrew Niccol
Music: John Williams
Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski
Cast: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Chi McBride, Diego Luna, Eddie Jones, Barry Shabaka Henley, Zoe Saldana, Kumar Pallana
Producer: DreamWorks SKG
Genre: Comedy. Drama. Romance | Comedy-Drama. Based On A True Story
Synopsis: 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.

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"Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks have made, in 'The Terminal,' a sweet and delicate comedy (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"In 'The Terminal', the scary modern world simultaneously shrinks into a friendly, artificial garden of escalators and food courts and expands toward the farthest horizon of the human imagination."

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"A film of inconsistent parts, but as with all of Spielberg's work there are more than a few diamonds in the rough (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"

Keith Uhlich: Slant
"Even the best of talents misfire. Here's Exhibit A (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"Hanks balances wide-eyed confusion with innate shrewdness"

Keith Phipps: AV Club
"It’s a pleasure to spend time there."

Scott Foundas: Variety
"Spielberg can't save weak premise (...) The first 45 minutes or so are interesting (...) Then the whole thing takes a nose dive and never recovers."

Paul Clinton: CNN
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