The Terminal Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

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Last modified: Dec. 22, 2008

The Terminal

Release Date: Friday, June 18, 2004

Director: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Tom Hanks • Catherine Zeta-Jones • Stanley Tucci • Chi McBride • Diego Luna

PG-13 Comedy 2 hrs, 8 m

4.3 / 5

57% WILL SEE 43% WON'T SEE

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Plot

What's the story about?

Plot: 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.

Comedy Romance

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Top Cast

The lead cast starring in The Terminal.

Tom Hanks
Here, The Phoenician Scheme
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Side Effects, Rock of Ages
Stanley Tucci
The Electric State, Conclave
C
Chi McBride
Draft Day, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
Diego Luna
DC League of Super-Pets, Contraband
K
Kumar Pallana
Romance and Cigarettes
Zoe Saldana
Elio, Avatar: Fire and Ash
E
Eddie Jones
Seabiscuit
J
Jude Ciccolella
Head of State
K
Kevin Weisman
Flipped, Space Buddies

Crew Behind the Film

The The Terminal behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Steven Spielberg last directed The Fabelmans and Jaws. The film's writer Sacha Gervasi last wrote November Criminals and Henry's Crime.

Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenwriters: Sacha Gervasi
Jeff Nathanson

Studio: DreamWorks Studios
Production Companies: —

Production Details

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Production Updates for The Terminal

Dec 2004

Completed

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Additional Information

Parent Rating: PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for brief language and drug references
Runtime: 2 hrs, 8 m
Tagline: Not available
Also known as: Not available
Language: English

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Release Dates

When was the film released?

The Terminal was released in on Friday, June 18, 2004. There were 2 other movies released on the same date, including Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and The Intended.

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Mon., Dec. 22, 2008 2008-12-22

Added the soundtrack release date of June 15, 2004

Sun., Nov. 9, 2008 2008-11-09

Added the DVD release date of November 23, 2004

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