I selected the movie The Terminal. It is an American drama comedy which showed up in 2004. The Director is Steven Spielberg and screenwriters are Andrew Niccol, Jeff Nathanson and Sacha Gervasi. Tom Hanks has the main role in this movie. The terminal is a successful movie with sympathetic story.

The story is quite simple and easy to understand. Tom Hanks as Viktor Navorski is a man who arrived in John F Kennedy’s airport in New York. Viktor comes from an Eastern european country, Krakozhia. After he left his country war broke out.  Now he is in JFK airport and he doesn’t have all these permissions that he needs to access New York city. He can’t come back to his homecountry because of revolution in his home nation of Krakozhia. Due to the civil war, the United States no longer recognizes Krakozhia as a sovereign nation, so now he is a man without country.
Viktor instead lives in the terminal, carrying his luggage and a Planters peanut can.

He meets many different people and soon he comes to know everybody. At first speaking with other people was difficult, because he could only speak his mother tongue russian. But soon he learned to speak little bit english, so he could communicate with other. In the airport happened this and that. One day he met a woman, whose name is Amelia (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Amelia is flight attendant. During the film Viktor and Amelia are talking a lot and they have good time together.
Viktor explains to Amelia that the purpose of his visit to New York is to get an autograph from the tenor saxophonist Benny Golson. The peanut can Viktor carries contains ”A Great Day in Harlem” photograph. His father was a jazz enthusiast who had discovered the famous portrait in a Hungarian newspaper in 1958, and vowed to get an autograph of all 57 of the jazz musicians featured on the photograph. Benny Golson’s name is the only, which is missing.
After nine months of living in the JFK terminal Viktor gets a one-day emergency visa to travel within the U.S. Viktor leaves the airport and with a taxi he goes to the Ramada Inn where Benny Golson is performing. Viktor gets the autograph and now the collection complete.
The film is inspired by the 17-year-stay of Mehran Karimi Nasseri in the Charles de Gaulle International Airport, Paris, France from year 1988 to 2006.

In the other important roles besides Tom hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones play for example Barry Shabaka Heley, Chi McBride, Diego Luna, Eddie Jones, Kumar Pallana, Stanley Tucci, Zoe Saldana.

The Camerawork of the movie is high quality and impressive. There is no special effects in the movie and that makes it realistic. That’s the reason why I like it. John Williams has done music for the movie. He made soundtracks for nearly every single scene of the film.