#THE TERMINAL CATHERINE ZETA JONES MOVIE#

Lately, though, he's had more visitors than usual. 'Maybe I don't do it like Tom Hanks does it,' he says. His most recent book is Hillary Clinton's autobiography.

#THE TERMINAL CATHERINE ZETA JONES MOVIE#

But where the movie has embellished the story with madcap adventures and a fling with a flight attendant played by Catherine Zeta-Jones, Nasseri's life consists mostly of reading. Some of Navorski's survival tactics are similar to Nasseri's, like bathing in the washroom, setting up a living area on a bench, and accepting food vouchers from airport workers.

So he lives for months in the hermetically sealed microcosm of an airport concourse. He can't officially enter the US, but neither can he return to Eastern Europe. His homeland erupts into civil war and his passport becomes void. 'The Terminal,' which opened Friday in the United States, recounts the hardships of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), a fictitious Balkan traveler stranded at New York's JFK Airport. Like a lost and battered suitcase, he has been claimed by no one. He's been stuck in Terminal One ever since. Nasseri is the inspiration for the movie - a real-life Iranian refugee who arrived at Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport in 1988 without a passport and without papers to enter another country. As far as Steven Spielberg's new blockbuster, 'The Terminal,' is concerned, the experience of being trapped inside an airport for a year can lead to friendship, comic high jinks, and even romance.īut it's hard to see the life of Mehran Karimi Nasseri through Spielberg-colored glasses.

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