An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.
- Awards
- 7 wins & 8 nominations total
- Dolores Torres
- (as Zoë Saldana)
- Milodragovich
- (as Valera Nikolaev)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe movie was inspired by the story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri. He landed at Charles De Gaulle Airport near Paris in 1988, after being denied entry into England because his Iranian passport and United Nations refugee certificate had been stolen. French authorities wouldn't let him leave the airport, so he remained in Terminal One, a stateless person with nowhere else to go. He was eventually granted permission to either enter France or return to Iran, but he chose to live in the terminal and tell his story to anyone who would listen. Reportedly, his mental health deteriorated over the years. When given the opportunity to live in France, he refused because the documents did not identify him as "Sir Alfred", and he claimed to have forgotten his native Persian. He left the terminal in August 2006 to be hospitalized for an unspecified illness. Afterward, he lived in a hotel on the money received from the film (DreamWorks reportedly paid him $250,000 for the use of his biography). Nasseri moved back to Charles de Gaulle airport in October 2022. He died in terminal 2F on November 12, 2022.
- GoofsNapoleon did not "isolate himself on the tiny island of St Helena". He was exiled there and kept under guard until his death. There is also no evidence that he tried to poison himself.
- Quotes
Officer Dolores Torres: Let me ask you something, Mr. Navorski. Why do you wait here two hours every day when I've told you there's nothing I can do for you - that your new visa will not arrive until your country is recognized by the United States?
Viktor Navorski: You... you have two stamp. One red, one green.
Viktor Navorski: So, I have chance go New York, 50-50.
Officer Dolores Torres: [laughs] Yes, that's a beautiful way to look at it. But America doesn't work that way.
- Crazy creditsSPOILER: Part of the closing credits of the prominent cast/crew use their actual signature. This follows with the secondary plot of Victor trying to get the last signature for the memory of his deceased father, as well as is a tribute to the "Star Trek" film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) which did the same thing.
- ConnectionsFeatured in HBO First Look: Inside 'The Terminal' (2004)
- SoundtracksStrangers in the Night
Written by Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton & Eddie Snyder
Performed by Strings Unlimited
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- La terminal
- Filming locations
- Palmdale Regional Airport, Palmdale, California, USA(hangar built as terminal set)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $60,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $77,872,883
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $19,053,199
- Jun 20, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $219,100,084
- Runtime2 hours 8 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
- 1.85 : 1