The Visitor
The Visitor

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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 ven... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Visitor:

Richard Jenkins
Haaz Sleiman
Danai Gurira
Hiam Abbass
Marian Seldes
Maggie Moore

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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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San Francisco Chronicle - 10/10 by Ruthe SteinThe Visitor, is, if anything, more imaginative and touching than his first.
Baltimore Sun - 10/10 by Michael SragowAs a writer-director, McCarthy, like the characters and the places that he suffuses with emotion, has poetry in him - and he knows how to let it out. He has a talent for demarcating those spaces in which characters can become whoever they want to be.
New York Post - 9/10 by Lou LumenickBest 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.
Chicago Tribune - 9/10 by Michael PhillipsJenkins 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 Post-Intelligencer - 9/10 by William ArnoldIt works on several levels, and stands out as a wistful meditation on the psychological cost of 9/11.
Boston Globe - 9/10 by Wesley MorrisThis is a film of our times - paranoid, heartbroken, disillusioned - and the rare recent American movie whose characters react the way actual people might.
The New York Times - 9/10 by A.O. ScottThe curious thing about The Visitor is that even as it goes more or less where you think it will, it still manages to surprise you along the way.
Rolling Stone - 9/10 by Peter TraversA heartfelt human drama that sneaks up and floors you.
TV Guide Magazine - 9/10 by Maitland McDonaghMcCarthy's flawless casting may be the film's greatest strength: Veteran character actor Jenkins and his costars vanish into their characters -- their performances are so subtle and unforced that they don't feel like performances at all.
USA Today - 9/10 by Claudia PuigIt is one of the year's most intriguing dramas, with a quartet of powerful performances.

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