The Visitor | |
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Directed by | Tom McCarthy |
Written by | Tom McCarthy |
Produced by | Mary Jane Skalski Michael London |
Starring | Richard Jenkins Hiam Abbass Haaz Sleiman Danai Gurira |
Cinematography | Oliver Bokelberg |
Edited by | Tom McArdle |
Music by | Jan A. P. Kaczmarek |
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Distributed by | Overture Films |
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Running time | 103 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Languages | English French Arabic Romanian |
Budget | $4 million[2] |
Box office | $18.1 million[1] |
The Visitor is a 2007 American drama film written and directed by Tom McCarthy and produced by Michael London and Mary Jane Skalski. Executive producers were Jeff Skoll and Omar Amanat. The screenplay focuses on a lonely man in late middle age whose life changes when a chance encounter with an immigrant couple forces him to face issues relating to identity, immigration, and cross-cultural communication in post-9/11 New York City.
For The Visitor, McCarthy won the 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Director,[3] while Richard Jenkins[4] was nominated for Best Actor at the 81st Academy Awards.