Additional information for The Visitor, which has a domestic theatrical release set for April 11, 2008. The film is being distributed by Overture Films and has been rated PG-13 for brief strong language. The Visitor has a total running time of 104 minutes.
PG
Canada
PG-13
USA
15
UK
PG
Ireland
M
Australia
7
Sweden
7
Switzerland
NC-16
Singapore
AL
Netherlands
M/12
Portugal
Atp
Argentina
All
South Korea
104 min
O Visitante
Brazil
Посетитель
Russia
El visitante
Spain
L'ospite inatteso
Italy
Misafir
Turkey: Turkish title
Nezvaný host
Czech Republic
Spotkanie
Poland
The Visitor
Greece
Visita inesperada
Argentina
September 7, 2007
Canada
January 23, 2008
USA
February 7, 2008
Germany
February 22, 2008
USA
March 7, 2008
USA
March 9, 2008
USA
March 28, 2008
USA
April 3, 2008
USA
April 5, 2008
USA
April 11, 2008
USA
April 18, 2008
Turkey
April 18, 2008
USA
June 13, 2008
USA
June 21, 2008
UK
July 4, 2008
UK
July 5, 2008
Czech Republic
August 14, 2008
Australia
August 22, 2008
Norway
August 29, 2008
Denmark
September 12, 2008
France
September 21, 2008
Canada
September 26, 2008
Brazil
September 26, 2008
Sweden
October 7, 2008
Belgium
October 7, 2008
USA
October 15, 2008
Poland
October 29, 2008
France
November 27, 2008
Lebanon
November 28, 2008
Finland
December 5, 2008
Italy
December 11, 2008
Singapore
December 17, 2008
Belgium
December 25, 2008
Israel
January 8, 2009
Netherlands
January 16, 2009
Poland
February 12, 2009
Hungary
February 19, 2009
Croatia
March 13, 2009
Brazil
March 13, 2009
Spain
March 19, 2009
Greece
March 30, 2009
Czech Republic
April 9, 2009
Czech Republic
June 18, 2009
Argentina
June 27, 2009
Japan
September 25, 2009
Taiwan
October 4, 2009
Japan
January 14, 2010
Germany
Connection is everything
connection is everything
A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
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 illegal aliens who were the victims of a real-estate scam 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 vibrant 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 been unleashed. 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. However, the wheels of injustice in immigration crush all manner of hopes in post-9/11 America. Vale soon realizes that he has unexpected 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
Thomas McCarthy
Director(s)
Thomas McCarthy
Writer(s)
Omar Amanat
executive producer
Michael London
producer
Patty Long
line producer: Los Angeles
Chris Salvaterra
executive producer
Mary Jane Skalski
producer
Jeff Skoll
executive producer
Ricky Strauss
executive producer
Bergen Swanson
line producer
John Woldenberg
executive producer
Producer(s)
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
Composer(s)
Prof. Walter Vale
Richard Jenkins
Tarek Khalil
Haaz Sleiman
Zainab (as Danai Gurira)
Danai Jekesai Gurira
Mouna Khalil
Hiam Abbass
Barbara
Marian Seldes
Karen
Maggie Moore
Charles
Michael Cumpsty
Darin
Bill McHenry
Jacob
Richard Kind
Zev
Tzahi Moskovitz
Mr. Shah
Amir Arison
Martin Revere
Neal Lerner
Cop #1
Ramon Fernandez
Cop #2
Frank Pando
Omar
Waleed Zuaiter
Upper Eastside Woman
Deborah Rush
Student
Ashley Springer
Nasim
Laith Nakli
Waiter
Jacqueline Brogan
Ronald Cole (as Walter T. Mudu)
Walter Mudu
Slavic Man
Yevgeniy Dekhtyar
Lester James
Earl Baker Jr.
Sprinkles the Dog
Walter the Dog
Man in subway
Bandar Albuliwi
Conference Attendee (uncredited)
Michael Bennett
Airport Security Guard (uncredited)
Brother Eden Douglas
Detainee (uncredited)
Hristo Hristov
Park Drummer (uncredited)
Jesus A. Del Rosario Jr.
Director(s)
Writer(s)
executive producer
Michael London
producer
Patty Long
line producer: Los Angeles
Chris Salvaterra
executive producer
Mary Jane Skalski
producer
Jeff Skoll
executive producer
Ricky Strauss
executive producer
Bergen Swanson
line producer
John Woldenberg
executive producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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