Official Website MPAA Rating: PG-13 Theater Release: 6/18/2004 Video Release: 11/23/2004 Buy it from Amazon: DVDVHS
A Fun Trip - By Diana Saenger Passengers who get stuck in an airport handle the imposition in different ways; some sleep, others read and many just “people watch” -- which is usually a fascinating study of human behavior. When foreign-born Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) lands at a New York MORE >>
Spielberg Lite - By Jeffrey Chen Steven Spielberg has reverted back to mushy mode. His new movie, The Terminal, is a throwback to the days when his sentimentality went unabashed, and when his primary goal was to please the audience. After his recent jaunt into more sobering and sometimes disturbing fare,... MORE >>
Cast Away Again - By John P. McCarthy Tom Hanks is a man without a country stuck in an airport. Steven Spielberg is a director without a destination caught trying to stretch a curious premise, borrowed from real life, into a fable about the immigrant dream. In The Terminal, he knits together patches of comedy,... MORE >>
Terminal Boredom - By David Haviland In 1988 Merhan Karimi Nasseri was exiled from Iran for protesting against the Shah and flew to Paris to claim asylum. Because his request was rejected, he found himself in a bizarre no man’s land: exiled from home, and barred from entering France. A man with no country, he... MORE >>
