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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013138000897
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, HiFi Sound, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: ANCHOR BAY
Manufacturer: ANCHOR BAY
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: ANCHOR BAY
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 07, 2008
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 77
Studio: ANCHOR BAY
Theatrical Release Date: April 18, 2008
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Hailed as 'one of the year's most intriguing dramas' (Claudia Puig, USA TODAY), The Visitor stars Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) in a perfect performance (Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY) as Walter, a disaffected college professor who has been drifting aimlessly through his life. When, in a chance encounter on a trip into New York, Walter discovers a couple has taken up residence in his apartment in the city, he develops an unexpected and profound connection to them that will change his life forever. As challenges arise for his tenants, Walter finds himself compelled to help his new friends, and rediscovers a passion he thought he had lost long ago. The year's first genuine must-see film' (Ann Hornaday, THE WASHINGTON POST) about rediscovering life's rhythms in the most unexpected places
Amazon.com:
A deeply moving drama built around longtime character actor Richard Jenkins, The Visitor is a simmering drama about a college professor and recent widower, Walter Vale (Jenkins), who discovers a pair of homeless, illegal aliens living in his New York apartment. After the mix-up is resolved, Vale invites the couple--a young, Syrian musician named Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) and his Senegalese girlfriend (Danai Gurira--to stay with him. An unlikely friendship develops between the retiring, quiet Vale and the vital Tarek, and the former begins to loosen up and respond to Tarek’s drumming lessons as if something in him waiting to be liberated has finally arrived. All goes well until Tarek is hauled in by immigration authorities and threatened with deportation. His mother, Mouna (Hiam Abbass), turns up and stays with Vale, sparking a renewed if subdued interest in courtship. But the wheels of injustice in immigration crush all manner of hopes in post-9/11 America. Vale soon realizes his unexpected capacity for anger over Tarek’s plight, and the positive changes to his personal life that emerged from a deep involvement with his friend and Mouna, might be the only legacy he takes from this experience. Writer-director Thomas McCarthy has created a wonderfully measured story about change and renewal, and put it all on the shoulders of Jenkins, a largely unheralded but masterful performer whose time for renown has surely come. --Tom Keogh
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Crazy rhythms
If Richard Jenkins doesn't get an Oscar nod for his amazing performance in Thomas McCarthy's new comedy-drama, The Visitor, I will personally picket the Academy. Writer-director-actor McCarthy's previous effort was the critical favorite The Station Agent, and once again he draws us into an extended family of very believable, warm-blooded characters, generously giving all of his actors plenty of room to breathe.
Jenkins absolutely inhabits the character of the life-tired, middle-aged ... Read More
Rating: - This Is What Independent Filmaking Is All About
Ever so often an independent film materializes amidst the glitz and glamour of Hollywoods zillion dollar budgets that reminds us just how thought provoking and touching films can be. With characters well written and fleshed out, as well as realistic scenarious that force us to question how we'd react if placed in similar circumstances, the Visitor is a tour de force of American independent filmaking. Director Tod mcCarthy takes a hot button subject , and puts faces to those thousands of individuals ... Read More
Rating:  - A Treasure
This is an exquisitely done movie. The story grabs you and pulls you into the lives of it's main characters so well that you almost wish you knew them in real life.
I loved this movie. But it bothered me that I.C.E. was shown as a villain because it is not. Immigration laws are in place in the US for an important reason, just like in every other country. Even Mexico has zero tolerance for illegal immigrants, but they encourage their own to come here and break our laws as illegal immigrants. ... Read More
Rating: - Compelling, Sad and Uplifting
What a marvellous revelation of a film! This film has so much to offer. It is at times captivating, at other times sad, but always compelling. This film should be seen by a wider audience than the art house market.
If "The Visitor" does nothing else, it raises to the light the issue of illegal immigration. In this post 11 September world, the fate of illegal immigrants is much more tenuous. Indeed, this applies not just in America but the entire western world where newly arrived foreigners ... Read More
Rating: - A truly wonderful film
A description of the plot can in no way convey the feeling of this movie and so I will not attempt a summary.
Where the movie hits home is directly in the heart. And so laughter and tears permeate throughout. It is not one story, but many brought together, wonderfully intertwined and connected life experiences that most will strongly relate to. While raising hope, the movie provides no easy answers. It certainly does not provide the typical Hollywood ending. Is the ending happy or unhappy? Different ... Read More
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