![]() Each character is slowly developed, and we come to care about them as we learn their backstories.ĭixon is the primary villain. And of course Viktor’s eventual love interest, flight attendant Amelia Warren (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Main characters include security assistant Ray Thurman (Barry Shebaka Henly)Ĭustodian Gupta (Kamar Pallana), baggage handler Joe Mulroy (Chi McBride), general gofer Enrique Cruz (Diego Luna), and customs official Dolores Torres (Zöe Saldana) whom Cruz has a crush on. Some airport employees are at first rude to or suspicious of Viktor, but eventually he wins many friends. The head of security, Frank Dixon ( Stanley Tucci) wants to get rid of Viktor, but his hands are tied. He speaks little English, and suffers setbacks and indignities. He’s trapped in the International Flight holding area at JFK. He can’t go home, and he can’t leave the airport. But while he was in the air, his country became embroiled in a civil war and his passport isn’t valid until the conflict is resolved and the United States recognizes the new government. Viktor Navorski (Hanks) is a tourist from Krakozhia, visiting New York City. More geared toward adults and mature teens, but relatively clean in content. “The Terminal” is primarily a character study with a number of interesting people. And when he’s directing Tom Hanks, good things tend to happen. ![]() Steven Spielberg has a unique touch, regardless what kind of film he makes. But Viktor has long worn out his welcome with airport official Frank Dixon ( Stanley Tucci), who considers him a bureaucratic glitch, a problem he cannot control but wants desperately to erase.ĭuring his accidental exile, Viktor encounters and befriends an array of airport employees, some of whom aren’t very far removed from their own assimilation 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.Īs 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). In reality, he spent several stays there, but always in the public area of the airport, he was always free to move around.Here’s what the distributor says about their film: “Viktor Navorski ( Tom Hanks) is 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. While Nasseri’s story inside the airport was memorialized by Tom Hanks in the movie “The Terminal”, the spokesperson for the airport noted that: “The Spielberg film suggests that he was stuck in a transit zone at Paris-Charles de Gaulle. The spokesperson added that Nasseri was an “iconic character” at the airport and that the “whole airport community was attached to him, and our staff looked after him as much as possible during many years, even if we would have preferred him to find a real shelter.” He had “returned to live as a homeless person in the public area of the airport since mid-September, after a stay in a nursing home,” the spokesperson said. Nasseri, an Iranian refugee, was en route to England via Belgium and France in 1988 when he lost his papers and could not board a flight nor leave the airport and was stuck in limbo until 2006. ![]() Nasseri was pronounced dead by the airport medical team at Terminal 2F and had died of natural causes, a spokesperson for the airport told CNN. ![]() Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the man who had lived inside the Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport for years and inspired Steven Spielberg’s 2004 film “The Terminal”, died Saturday at the same airport.
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