Yet another Hanks fish out of water film in an unusual setting. This time he is a traveller on a visit to New York when he somehow gets stuck in immigration purgatory. He can neither stay or leave so is confined to a particular area of the airport. Somehow he ekes out a life there.Tucci's increasingly exasperated airport boss provides some necessary and amusing grounding in reality. Sadly, a luminous Zeta-Jones has very little to do and plays it completely straight.
It is the attention to detail which saves this movie. In hands less deft than Spielberg's, it could easily have been overly sentimental.
Verdict: Treads a fine line.
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