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The Visitor
2008 1h 44m PG-13
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7.6
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84%
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A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
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Directed By
Tom McCarthy
Written By
Tom McCarthy
Studio
Overture Films
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Cast of The Visitor
Richard Jenkins
Prof. Walter Vale
Haaz Sleiman
Tarek Khalil
Danai Gurira
Zainab
Hiam Abbass
Mouna Khalil
Marian Seldes
Barbara
Maggie Moore
Karen
Richard Kind
Jacob
Michael Cumpsty
Charles
Bill McHenry
Darin
Tzahi Moskovitz
Zev
The Visitor Reviews
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
The Visitor is a tiny treasure of a movie. This is a wistful comedy that quickly finds its rhythm, but never lets that groove become a rut.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
At first glance Walter isn't a guy you want to spend two hours with. But by the end of the film, you don't want to see him go. Jenkins is like that: He sneaks up on you and steals your heart with light-fingered skill.
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
The Visitor is a small movie, but its emotions could not be writ any larger.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Richard Jenkins and "The Visitor" make lovely music together. It's a case of a veteran character actor slipping on a leading role like the most comfortable pair of pants in the world.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
This gifted writer/director knows how to illuminate those moments in which people realize they have become essential to each other -- that each person's life has been gently changed by the other's presence.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
All the main characters are inherently decent, and the humanity of their saga, which centers on illegal immigration, makes for a deeply moving film.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
This is a film of our times -- paranoid, heartbroken, disillusioned -- and the rare recent American movie whose characters react the way actual people might.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
McCarthy puts a mark on each film, identifying it as distinctly his own. A couple more like them, and he'll be knighted an auteur.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Definitely a film that marches to its own drumbeat.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
A character study drowning in liberal guilt.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
The script here is very strong.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
[Richard Jenkins] gets the role of a lifetime in this powerful second film by writer-director Thomas McCarthy.
The Deadbolt
Brian Tallerico
These characters feel like they exist before the cameras roll and after the credits are done, and it is the audience who are the true visitors, inspired by just getting to spend some time with them.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
The Visitor gives viewers a perceptive, deeply personal take on the timeless immigrant narrative, in which the most epic journey is finally one of self-discovery.
Arizona Republic
Kerry Lengel
Both halves of the story ring true in their way, but they don't ring out in harmony.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Best movie I've seen so far this year? Hands down, it's Tom McCarthy's superb The Visitor, which turns Richard Jenkins, one of the best character actors in the business, into a full-fledged star.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Both director and cast exhibit the dedication of those who truly believe in the message at hand.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
McCarthy is so careful not to take a political stand that his film seems neutered by good intentions. In the spirit of squishy humanism, he soft-pedals a hard-hitting topic.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The Visitor tells of renewal through love. Its song is tinged with sadness, but stirring all the same.
Boxoffice Magazine
Tim Cogshell
Actor/director Tom McCarthy's follow up to his award-winning debut, The Station Agent, avoids any notion of a sophomore curse by being an even more polished effort than his debut.
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