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.
Cast Names Tom Hanks; Catherine Zeta-Jones; Stanley Tucci; Chi McBride; Diego Luna; Barry Shabaka Henley; Kumar Pallana; Zoe Saldana; Eddie Jones; Jude Ciccolella; Corey Reynolds; Guillermo Díaz; Rini Bell; Stephen Mendel; Valeri Nikolayev; Michael Nouri; Ana Maria Quintana; Bob Morrisey; Sasha Spielberg; Susan Slome; Mik Scriba; Jim Ishida; Carlease Burke; Stephon Fuller; Dan Finnerty; Anastasia Basil; Lydia Blanco; Joseph Davis; Tonya Ivey; Kevin Mukherji; John Eddins; Kenneth Choi; Cas Anvar; Conrad Pla; Danette Mackay; Ian Finlay; Janique Kearns; Eddie Santiago; Kevin Ryder; Dusan Dukic;
Box Office USD 77,032,279
Release Date 2004-06-09 (Beverly Hills, California) (premiere) 2004-06-15 (New York City, New York) (premiere) 2004-06-18
Genres Drama; Romance; Comedy;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated PG-13 for brief language and drug references.