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Tom Hanks stars as a man in limbo at JFK airport in Steven Spielberg's "cutesy emotional heart-tugger" The Terminal. Catherine Zeta-Jones also features as a cutesy air hostess, but despite the A-List talent and largely good reviews, it wasn't the blockbuster industry watchers had expected. It fared better outside the US, with some cynics suggesting that Americans were turned off by the notion of a movie hero from a dodgy eastern European country.
Extra Baggage
This two-disc DVD is heavy on featurettes, which are all fairly interesting if a bit samey. In Booking The Flight, Steven Spielberg breaks down the basic plot, but screenwriters Sacha Gervasi and Jeff Nathanson hardly get a word in edgeways. It's a shame because Gervasi clearly has a few stories to tell after spending several days living at various airports as part of his research.
Again the writers are afforded mere snippets of talk time in a longer 'making of' featurette, which instead favours fluffy interviews with Tom Hanks and co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones, who often begins and ends a sentence with "...so, I said to Steven..." On the bright side, there's plenty of behind-the-scenes footage and notes on costuming, production design, visual effects and even stunt coordination for Hanks' many pratfalls.
CZJ explains her relationship with Spielberg in even greater detail in Boarding, a featurette on casting. In case you didn't know, it was Spielberg who handed the Welsh actress her Hollywood breakout role in The Mask Of Zorro and the two have longed to work with each other ever since. Of course Hanks has already worked with The Big S on two previous films, so he chats about the shorthand they've developed in that time and raves about Gervasi's script, which he calls, "too good to be true".
Flight Of Fancy
Waiting For The Flight follows production designer Alex McDowell as he builds the eponymous terminal from scratch inside a 747 hangar. Spielberg encourages you to notice the "retro 20s influence" married with "a modernist feel" in this usually detailed look at the creation of a single, but admittedly impressive, set. There's also rare insight into the process of scoring a film with Spielberg's go-to composer John Williams in In-Flight Service.
To round things off, Landing is a throwaway featurette in which cast and crew tell rather dull airport anecdotes. These include CZJ confessing to delaying a flight because of pressing shopping concerns (no, really?) and, dullest of all, Spielberg who admits, "I can't remember a single problem I had at an airport." Um, well, that's the end of that then... Although this DVD packs a lot of baggage, it's fair to say your overhead compartment will hardly feel the strain.
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