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.

Directed by
Steven Spielberg

Cast
Tom Hanks - Viktor Navorski
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Amelia Warren
Stanley Tucci - Frank Dixon
Diego Luna - Enrique Cruz
Chi McBride - Mulroy
Zoe Saldana - Torres
Barry Shabaka - Henley Thurman
Kumar Pallana - Gupta Rajan
Eddie Jones - Salchak
Jude Ciccolella - Karl Iverson
Michael Nouri - Max
Corey Reynolds - Waylin

Production Co.
Amblin Entertainment

Produced by
Jason Hoffs
Patty Whitcher
Steven Spielberg

Studio
Dreamworks Pictures

Writer
Andrew Niccol
Sacha Gervasi
Jeff Nathanson

Music
John Williams