An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.
- Director
- Writers
- Andrew Niccol(story)
- Sacha Gervasi(story)
- Jeff Nathanson(screenplay)
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writers
- Andrew Niccol(story)
- Sacha Gervasi(story)
- Jeff Nathanson(screenplay)
- Stars
- Awards
- 7 wins & 8 nominations
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Zoe Saldana
- Dolores Torresas Dolores Torres
- (as Zoë Saldana)
Guillermo Díaz
- Bobby Alimaas Bobby Alima
- (as Guillermo Diaz)
Valeriy Nikolaev
- Milodragovichas Milodragovich
- (as Valera Nikolaev)
- Director
- Writers
- Andrew Niccol(story)
- Sacha Gervasi(story) (screenplay)
- Jeff Nathanson(screenplay)
- All cast & crew
- See more cast details at IMDbPro
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- TriviaThe movie was inspired by the story of Merhan Nasseri, an Iranian refugee. In 1988, he landed at Charles De Gaulle Airport near Paris, after being denied entry into England, because his passport and United Nations refugee certificate had been stolen. French authorities wouldn't let him leave the airport. He remained in Terminal One, a stateless person with nowhere else to go. He has since been granted permission to either enter France or return to Iran. He chooses to continue to live in the terminal and tell his story to those who will listen. Reportedly, his mental health has deteriorated over the years. When given the opportunity to live in France, he refused because the documents did not name him as "Sir Alfred", and he claims to have forgotten his native Persian. Reportedly, he left the terminal in August 2006 to be hospitalized for an unspecified illness. DreamWorks reportedly paid him $250,000 for the use of his biography.
- GoofsThe departure board indicates that Viktor's flight is bound for "Krakhosia," yet this board is supposed to show cities not countries. However, it's possible that the capital of fictitious Krakhosia is also named Krakhosia, just as the capitals of Mexico, Panama, Oklahoma and (formerly) Belize (whose capital is now relocated to Belmopan) share the country's/state's name, or that Krakhosia is a single-city nation like Singapore or San Marino. Either way, this is not necessarily a goof.
- Quotes
Officer Dolores Torres: Let me ask you something, Mr. Navorski. Why do you wait here two hours every day when I've told you there's nothing I can do for you - that your new visa will not arrive until your country is recognized by the United States?
Viktor Navorski: You... you have two stamp. One red, one green.
Viktor Navorski: So, I have chance go New York, 50-50.
Officer Dolores Torres: [laughs] Yes, that's a beautiful way to look at it. But America doesn't work that way.
- Crazy creditsSPOILER: In the closing credits, the names of the production staff and prominent cast are the person's actual signature, rather than the standard block print used in the remainder of the credits. This follows with the secondary plot of Victor trying to get the last signature for the memory of his deceased father.
- ConnectionsFeatured in HBO First Look: Inside 'The Terminal' (2004)
- SoundtracksStrangers in the Night
Written by Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton & Eddie Snyder
Performed by Strings Unlimited
Courtesy of Countdown Media
Top review
A well written,well portrayed entertainer that will win your heart!!!!
Viktor Navorski is a visitor to New York from Eastern Europe. His 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. But he has long worn out his welcome with airport official Frank Dixon, who considers Viktor a bureaucratic glitch--a problem he cannot control but wants desperately to erase.
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- Terminal
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- Production companies
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- Budget
- $60,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $77,872,883
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $19,053,199
- Jun 20, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $219,100,084
- Runtime2 hours 8 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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