![]() Now, the hapless traveler has a place to sleep, plenty of food and new friends. A driver for the airport food service, Enrique Cruz (Diego Luna, “Open Range”), has a crush on Dolores and enlists Viktor, with the promise of all the free food he can eat, to be his matchmaker. Still, Navorski makes a home for himself in the unfinished Gate 67 of the international terminal and, every day, takes his pass and his exit form to a pretty young Customs officer, Dolores Torres (Zoe Saldana, “Drumlines”), who feels for Viktor’s plight but must do her duty, stamping his forms with “Denied” in bright red. That is, until Dixon puts the kibosh on that plan to try to force Viktor out of his airport. He soon figures out that there is money to be made returning luggage trolleys and he starts to get the cash needed to survive. Now foodless, Viktor must live off the land and subsists on condiments and crackers. He loses his food chits when an airport maintenance worker, Gupta (Kumar Pallana, “The Royal Tenenbaums”), sweeps them into his bin and won’t let Viktor look for them…unless he has an appointment. Viktor’s first days of exile are spent in basic survival mode. Dixon tries everything he can to get Navorski out of his thinning hair and into the hands of some other government authority but, as days turn into months, he is stuck with Viktor. ![]() Being a good Krakozhian citizen, he follows the rules, much to the chagrin and aggravation of acting field commissioner Dixon, who considers Viktor a bureaucratic glitch that he simply wants to be free of. Suddenly, he is a man without a country and head customs official Frank Dixon (Stanley Tucci) tells Viktor “America is closed.” The now-refugee must live in a limbo state and fend for himself until his problems are resolved and, for now, he must fritter away his life in “The Terminal.” Robin: US Customs strips Viktor of his ticket home and his now-invalid passport, gives him food vouchers and a pass to the international terminal’s facilities and sets him lose with the order that he must not go outside the exit door. Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) arrives in New York’s JFK airport just as a violent coup shakes his country of Krakozhia. ![]()
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