The Terminal
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. The film is partially inspired by the true story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri who lived in Terminal 1 of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, from 1988 to 2006. After finishing Catch Me If You Can, Spielberg decided to direct The Terminal because he wanted to next make a film "that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world". As no suitable airport was willing to provide their facilities, an entire working set was built inside a large hangar at the LA/Palmdale Regional Airport, with most of the film's exterior shots taken from the Montreal–Mirabel International Airport. The film was released in North America on June 18, 2004, to generally positive reviews and was a commercial success, earning $219 million worldwide.
- Let's just start over. - Yes, okay. - Are you coming or going? - I don't know. Both. - Tell me about it. - Napoleon? Yeah. I read a lot of history books. They're long and cheap and usually about men killing each other. Like 1,200 pages for $9.99. You can't beat that. - But Napoleon? - Yeah. He's one of my favorites.
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- You know what saved Napoleon's life? - No. - His ego. - Ego? Yes. After he loses the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon isolates himself on the tiny island of Saint Helena. No one knows exactly what happens next, but the version I like goes like this. He's very depressed and decides to take his own life. But Napoleon believes himself to be of such superhuman strength that he takes six times the amount of poison needed to do the job. His stomach is so full up with poison that his body rejects it, and he doesn't die. See? Ego. Saved his life. Maybe he need glasses. - Glasses? - Yes. To read words on bottle. Poison. It's funny you should say that. Rumor has it that Napoleon was farsighted. - There you go. - There you go. - There you go. - And there you go. I think we're rewriting history right here. Why don't we talk about it over lunch? I can't believe it. I just asked you out again. I just did it again.
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Bring him in. Jake, he has no nationality. Okay? No country. He's a national security risk, according to my interpretation of Section 2.12. I want you to put him in a detention center and run a clearance on him. That's all I want. Well, what about a federal prison? Well, what about another airport? Hello? Hello?
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We process about 600 planes a day, with a processing time of 37 minutes per plane, about 60 seconds per passenger... to be brought into the country. We keep it as clean as possible. - What do you import? - Computer software. That's a lot of walnuts. Yeah. My mother-in-law loves these things. Every time I go to Brazil, I bring her back a bag. - Your mother-in-law? - Yeah.
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