Shown: March 9, 2025 at 6pm
Director : Tom McCarthy
Country : USA
Release Date : 2008
Duration : 103 mins
Language : English
Subtitles : No
SHORT-LISTED : RICHARD JENKINS (BEST ACTOR) AT 2009 OSCARS
When professor Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins) travels to New York for a lecture, he’s stunned to find illegal immigrants Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) and Zainab (Danai Gurira) living in his apartment. It turns out that it was fraudulently rented to them by a swindler, and Vale feels sufficiently sorry for them that he invites them to stay. They get on well until Tarek is accused of jumping a subway turnstile and lands in a detention centre. He risks being deported, and Vale does everything he can to prevent it.
“A heartfelt, human drama that sneaks up and floors you.” (Peter Travers – Rolling Stone)