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.
This is jazz. My father, Dimitar Asenov Navorski, see this photograph in Hungarian newspaper, 1958. He say he look at photograph for seven days. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday... Who are they? Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Max Kaminsky. 57 of them all together. After looking at photograph for seven days, my father has idea. He begin to write letters to club, Lickety Split, Snookie's Sugar Bowl. He ask the nuns to write English. Hundreds letters. And then he wait. He wait month, week, year. My father wait 40 year. And they all sign names. One by one. They all write their name and send it to my father. All but not one. Benny Golson. Saxophone. My father die before Benny Golson write his name and send to my father. So I make him promise. I keep promise. I promise I will go New York, find Benny Golson, have him write name to put in can. And you've been living here so you could do this for your father? Maybe I think he do it for me.
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All right, everybody. Let's raise your glasses. Let's have a toast to my friend, Viktor "The Goat." May he never lose his country again. Krakozhia. Amelia. You here early. Hello. Amelia, look. Peace. Peace. The war. The war. Please come. Come. See, the war, the war Krakozhia is over. Peace. The war is over.
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- You know my friend in Washington. - Yes, yes. He has a lot of connections. Here. It's a pass, Viktor. A one-day travel emergency visa with your name on it. - Wha... Visa? - Yes. - From your friend? - Yeah. Just go to New York, find that last name and put it in the can. - I go New York? - Yes. I go New York!
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