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The Terminal (2004)

PG-1306/17/2004Comedy, Drama2h 8m
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Life is waiting.

Overview

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

Top Billed Cast

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    Tom Hanks

    Viktor Navorski

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    Catherine Zeta-Jones

    Amelia Warren

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    Stanley Tucci

    Frank Dixon

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    Chi McBride

    Mulroy

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    Diego Luna

    Enrique Cruz

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    Barry Shabaka Henley

    Thurman

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    Kumar Pallana

    Gupta Rajan

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    Zoe Saldaña

    Dolores Torres

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    Eddie Jones

    Salchak

I may have watched The Terminal a while after it first came out, but I remembered no details, so I took the opportunity o watch it on Netflix recently. Whether or not I watched it before, I may not remember the details very well now either. It is a quiet movie with a slow moving plot. It stands in direct counterpoint to Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, which was slow moving in a way, but it had as a backdrop the murder of millions of people and one man’s character growth towards a time when he would try to save some of those lives. It’s quiet tone is interrupted by spurts of emotional and physica...