If you were to pitch a movie that’s basically two hours of a guy stuck at an airport, you’d probably have a hard time finding people who would be willing to make it, let alone watch it. But if you have it star Tom Hanks and have it be, of course, inspired by true events, you almost instantly have a classic movie on your hands.
Even though critics had mixed reviews of the film, audiences everywhere loved Hanks in the role of Viktro Navorski, an everyman who, thanks to a war in his home country, finds himself at the heart of a major international political battle that leaves him indefinitely trapped in the no man’s land of JFK airport. Hanks leads yet another all-star cast in this movie that also features Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci and Zoe Saldana.
