| Description: "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. |
