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Hanks being trapped in a crowded terminal with his visa invalidated learns how to survive in a shopping area, which is almost like the Robinson Crusoe-like Hanks surviving in Cast Away when stuck on a desert island. Hanks looks as if he’s doing an impersonation of Robin Williams in Moscow on the Hudson, as he dresses frumpy, walks with a slouch, acts childlike and friendly without any hostility, and babbles in an invented Slavic language.

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The Terminal draws its inspiration from the true story of Iranian refugee Merhan Nasseri, who has been living in Paris’ Charles De Gaulle airport since 1988 due to a series of political snafus (though now able to leave, the dissident refuses to budge). The film is based on a concept by Andrew Niccol and further explored by Sacha Gervasi, while Jeff Nathanson (writer for Catch Me If You Can) came on board later to help with the screenplay. It’s a Capra-esque-like feel-good comedy, but without an edge and its narrative is so slight that only a skilled filmmaker like Spielberg could make such a flimsy film come out at least bearable. But when a violent coup takes place in his homeland just as his plane lands, Viktor becomes stateless and trapped at Kennedy International Airport in Steven Spielberg’s “The Terminal.” The officious immigration security chief Frank Dixon (Stanley Tucci) follows the letter of the law and refuses to allow him to leave the international terminal lounge until the war in Viktor’s country is settled and there’s a legitimate country for him to return to. Tom Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, an Eastern European from a fictional country called Krakozhia, who visits NYC carrying a Planters Peanuts tin filled with autographs of jazz greats his deceased dad collected. “That Spielberg refuses to go after bigger game keeps the film a banal exercise in sentimentality.”

(director: Steven Spielberg screenwriters: story by Andrew Niccol/Jeff Nathanson/Sacha Gervasi cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski editor: Michael Kahn music: John Williams cast: Tom Hanks (Viktor Navorski), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Amelia Warren), Stanley Tucci (Frank Dixon), Chi McBride (Joe Mulroy), Diego Luna (Enrique Cruz), Barry Shabaka Henley (Thurman), Kumar Pallana (Gupta Rajan), Zoë Saldana (Dolores Torres) Runtime: 128 MPAA Rating: PG-13 producers: Steven Spielberg/Laurie MacDonald/Walter Parkes DreamWorks 2004)

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