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The Ter­mi­nal stars Tom Hanks as an unfor­tu­nate trav­eler from some Russ­ian coun­try. While fly­ing to New York, his home gov­ern­ment is over­thrown. When he arrives in the New York ter­mi­nal he finds he can­not enter the United States because the rela­tion­ship with his coun­try has changed. He also can­not go back because his coun­try is in tur­moil and there are no flights going there so he’s stuck liv­ing in the ter­mi­nal until some­thing changes. What hap­pens next is a series of some­times sad, some­times funny, some­times heart warm­ing events that occur while he learns to sur­vive in the ter­mi­nal. He makes some famil­iar friends and falls for a stew­ardess played by Cather­ine Zeta-Jones.

This is a Spiel­berg film. I say that to say that it is enter­tain­ing and nicely put together. It mean­ders a bit here and there, which isn’t nec­es­sar­ily a good thing for a movie with a two hour run-time, but I enjoyed it nonethe­less. It’s got healthy por­tions of drama, com­edy, and romance. This is the kind of film you can watch while sit­ting by the fire­place with a warm bev­er­age in hand. It’s heart warm­ing, but also a bit slow and long. It is worth rent­ing and it’s been out long enough that you might even be able to stream it on Net­flix. I give it a 3 and 1/2 out of 5 marks. Rat­ing: