The Visitor (2008) [PG-13]
Featuring:
Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira
Written by:
Tom McCarthy
Directed by:
Tom McCarthy
Release Date:
February 21, 2008
Original Title:
The Visitor
Alternate Titles:
A látogató
Ein Sommer in New York
Návštěvník
O Visitante
The Visitor
不速之客
幸福来访时
Genres:
Crime | Drama | Music
Production Companies:
Groundswell Productions
Next Wednesday Productions
Overture Films
Participant
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
AT: AA PT: M/12 US: PG-13
Runtime: 104
Connection is everything.
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
Lonely widower Professor Walter Vale has a boring life in Connecticut. He teaches only one class at the local college and is trying to learn how to play the piano, despite lacking the necessary musical talent. Walter is assigned to attend a conference about Global Policy and Development at New York University and give a lecture about a paper he co-authored. When he arrives at his New York apartment, he finds Tarek Khalil, a Syrian musician, and Zainab, a Senegalese street vendor, living there. He sympathizes with the illegal immigrants' situation and invites the couple to stay with him. Tarek invites him to go to his gig at Jules Live Jazz. Walter is fascinated with his African drum and Tarek offers to teach Walter how to play it. However, after an incident in the subway, Tarek is arrested and sent to a detention center for illegal immigrants. Walter has just hired a lawyer to defend Tarek when, out of the blue, Tarek's mother Mouna arrives at the apartment from Michigan. He invites her to stay in Tarek's room, and while trying to get Tarek released, Walter and Mouna get close to each other and he finds reasons to feel life can be exciting and worth living again.
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