The Terminal Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Dec. 22, 2008

The Terminal

Release Date: Friday, June 18, 2004

Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Zoe Saldana, Stanley Tucci, Diego Luna, Kevin Weisman, Jude Ciccolella, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jeff Nathanson, Chi McBride, Sacha Gervasi, Kumar Pallana, Eddie Jones

PG-13 Comedy 2 hrs, 8 m

4.3

57% WILL SEE

43% WON'T SEE

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Plot

What's the story about?

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, Toy Story 4
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Side Effects, Nine
Stanley Tucci
Conclave, What Is Life Worth
C
Chi McBride
Draft Day, Roll Bounce
Diego Luna
DC League of Super-Pets, Elysium
K
Kumar Pallana
Romance and Cigarettes
Zoe Saldana
Emilia Pérez, Avatar
E
Eddie Jones
Seabiscuit
J
Jude Ciccolella
Head of State
K
Kevin Weisman
Space Buddies, Flipped

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: —

Additional Information

MPA 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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Production Details

What we know about the The Terminal movie production.

Production Updates

Dec 2004

Completed

The film was tagged as Completed.

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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