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The Terminal

2004 · Movie · 128 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer61%as of 2026-01-09
  • Rotten Tomatoes average6.2/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic55/100as of 2025-07-14

What it is

The Terminal is a 2004 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stanley Tucci. The film is about an Eastern European man who is stuck in New York's John F. Kennedy Airport terminal when he is denied entry to the United States, but is unable to return to his native country because of a military coup.

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Genres
Drama
Original language
Russian

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