Very enjoyable, cute movie. Almost everyone can empathize with Viktor. I don't normally enjoy comedies too much, but this one wasn't the usual slapstick or toilet humor.

Its an ok movie, nothing special. Spielberg does a good job on this smaller scale movie. Tom Hanks is good but I still can't get past how they casted him as an immigrant, he is like the whitest guy in hollywood.

minus 1 point for forcing me to watch the disgusting travesty that is a man sandwiching k*tch*p between crackers

Just not believable as such, only loosely based on a true story (in the real life the character has mental health issues, and is in great part responsible for being stuck)

Wholesame, fun family-movie. Sadly not without (Story-)flaws. Along with "Catch Me If You Can" (2002) one of Spielbergs more friendlier movies he wanted to shoot after the Events of 9/11 to lift the mood in the country and the world. The Story is loosely based/inspired by the real-life-events of Mehran Karimi Nasseri (and his book "The Terminal Man" from the same year as the movie), an Iranian refugee who lived at the departure lounge of the Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years, from 1988 until 2006.