The Terminal

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The Terminal is a 2004 comedy-drama film directed by Steven Spielberg in which Tom Hanks plays a man stranded for months in an airport terminal due to a bureaucratic immigration snafu.

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instanceOf comedy-drama film
film
award BMI Film Music Award for John Williams
basedOn inspired by the story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri
boxOfficeGrossWorldwide approximately $219 million
budget approximately $60 million
characterPortrayedBy Tom Hanks
surface form: Viktor Navorski – Tom Hanks
cinematographyBy Janusz Kamiński
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Steven Spielberg
distributedBy DreamWorks Pictures
Universal Pictures
distributorRegion DreamWorks Pictures
surface form: DreamWorks Pictures – North America

Universal Pictures – international
editedBy Michael Kahn
filmingLocation Montréal–Mirabel International Airport (terminal set)
genre comedy-drama
hasTheme bureaucracy
hope
human connection
immigration
isolation
language English
mainCharacter Viktor Navorski
mpaaRating PG-13
musicBy John Williams
narrativeFocus bureaucratic complications in immigration and customs
plotSummary A man from the fictional country Krakozhia becomes stranded in a New York airport terminal when his homeland undergoes a coup and his passport is no longer valid.
producer Laurie MacDonald
Steven Spielberg
Walter F. Parkes NERFINISHED
productionCompany Amblin Entertainment
DreamWorks Pictures
releaseDateUS June 18, 2004
releaseYear 2004
runtimeMinutes 128
screenwriter Andrew Niccol
Jeff Nathanson
Sacha Gervasi
setting John F. Kennedy International Airport
surface form: John F. Kennedy International Airport (fictionalized terminal)
starring Catherine Zeta-Jones
Chi McBride
Diego Luna
Kumar Pallana
Stanley Tucci
Tom Hanks
Zoe Saldana

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Catherine Zeta-Jones notableWork The Terminal
Tom Hanks notableWork The Terminal