The Terminal (Widescreen Edition)

After arriving at nys jfk airport viktor vivorski gets caught in bureaucratic glitches that make it impossible for him to return to his home country or enter the u.S. Now caught up in the world inside the airport viktor makes friends gets a job & finds romance - all inside the terminal. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/01/2007 Starring: Tom Hanks Stanley Tucci Run time: 128 minutes Rating: Pg13

Like an airport running at peak efficiency, The Terminal glides on the consummate skills of its director and star. Having refined their collaborative chemistry on Saving Private Ryan and Catch Me if You Can, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks mesh like the precision gears of a Rolex, turning a delicate, not-very-plausible scenario into a lovely modern-age fable (partly based on fact) that's both technically impressive and subtly moving. It's Spielberg in Capra mode, spinning the featherweight tale of Victor Navorski (Hanks, giving a finely tuned performance), an Eastern European who arrives at New York's Kennedy Airport just as his (fictional) homeland has fallen to a coup, forcing him, with no valid citizenship, to take indefinite residence in the airport's expansive International Arrivals Terminal (an astonishing full-scale set that inspires Spielberg's most elegant visual strategies). Spielberg said he made this film in part to alleviate the anguish of wartime America, and his master's touch works wonders on the occasionally mushy material; even Stanley Tucci's officious terminal director and Catherine Zeta-Jones's mixed-up flight attendant come off (respectively) as forgivable and effortlessly charming. With this much talent involved, The Terminal transcends its minor shortcomings to achieve a rare degree of cinematic grace. --Jeff Shannon

One of the first passengers from the first incoming flight (Burbank) to the new JetBlue T5 terminal gets high-5's from greeting JetBlue staff. JetBlue Airways officially opened its new terminal, known as "T5" on Wednesday October 22, 2008. The Terminal whose construction began in December 2005 and cost $743 million dollars more than doubles the airlines' passenger capacity from their original terminal 6, to twenty million customers annually. T5 features 22 food and beverage concessions and 25 retail stores.

After a delayed flight from Edinburgh I had a short stop in Heathrow Terminal 5 before getting on a flight to Chicago. I took this shot looking out over the aircraft stands just prior to getting on the plane.

Immediately after this the weather got worse, with torrential rain and bad visibility delaying my (and a few other people's) flight. As a result I didn't get the chance to take an alternative shot for day 249 on arrival.

TERMINAL - DVD Movie

Like an airport running at peak efficiency, The Terminal glides on the consummate skills of its director and star. Having refined their collaborative chemistry on Saving Private Ryan and Catch Me if You Can, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks mesh like the precision gears of a Rolex, turning a delicate, not-very-plausible scenario into a lovely modern-age fable (partly based on fact) that's both technically impressive and subtly moving. It's Spielberg in Capra mode, spinning the featherweight tale of Victor Navorski (Hanks, giving a finely tuned performance), an Eastern European who arrives at New York's Kennedy Airport just as his (fictional) homeland has fallen to a coup, forcing him, with no valid citizenship, to take indefinite residence in the airport's expansive International Arrivals Terminal (an astonishing full-scale set that inspires Spielberg's most elegant visual strategies). Spielberg said he made this film in part to alleviate the anguish of wartime America, and his master's touch works wonders on the occasionally mushy material; even Stanley Tucci's officious terminal director and Catherine Zeta-Jones's mixed-up flight attendant come off (respectively) as forgivable and effortlessly charming. With this much talent involved, The Terminal transcends its minor shortcomings to achieve a rare degree of cinematic grace. --Jeff Shannon