The Visitor (DVD)

... It's always the decent illegal immigrants that get deported, or, at least, that's the message of this rather serious and lop-sided low budget from the U.S. In the U.K., of course, the system is the exact opposite, human rights lawyers set up to help those immigrants who got here illegally and want to stay, what ever their misdemeanours or situation, rather than help those who go through the legal process from their country of origin to get British residency. The process is now all about the Foreign and Home Office exploiting hard cash out of genuine people who can afford to migrate, ironically encouraging illegal immigration in the process and so ...  Read the complete review

Note: originally written for my review website, ShaunMunro.co.uk! ~~~ Richard Jenkins has gradually crept up the Hollywood ladder over recent years - propelling himself to fame in Alan Ball's excellent HBO drama Six Feet Under, and turning in a slew of solid character roles since, Jenkins finally finds himself breaking the glass ceiling with The Visitor, establishing himself as a viable leading man. Jenkins plays Walter Vale, a University professor, who comes home to one of his apartments to discover illegal immigrants Zainab (Danai Jekesai Gurira) and Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) living there. It is not entirely convincing that Walter allows ...  Read the complete review

The Visitor was a 2007 film that was released later in the UK and was directed by Tom McCarthy. Richard Jenkins plays the part of Professor Walter Vale a man who claims to "have done nothing but pretended he's doing something for the past 15 years", we're introduced to him at the beginning as he struggles to learn how to play the piano. Work sees him leave for New York and to his apartment there, one which he hasn't visited for several years.. when he arrives he gets an enormous shock as he discovers a Senegalese girl Zainab (played by American Zimbabwean Danai Jekesai Gurira) in his bath, she's also terrified. Shortly her boyfriend Tarek (Haaz ...  Read the complete review

The visitor is a Drama about friendship and deportationand stars Richard jenkins as a widowed proffesser looking for some sort of passion in his life after he is left widowed. The film starts as Walter vale (Jenkins) is taking piano lessons as his wife was once a pianist and tries to fill the empty void in his life. He is bored and wants something new. he is called away to a confrence and has to go and stay in his city home where he finds two Imagrents living in his apartment. After and awkward start Vale allows the two to stay and slowly befriends the male called Tarek played by Haaz Sleiman. As his friendship grows he begins finding a passion in drums and ...  Read the complete review

Won several awards, I believe The visitor is one good movie to be watched. The unique storyline about love and loneliness, The Visitor made me falling in love with the story the first time I watched this movie. An old professor lost the passion in his life after the death of his wife. He live alone in the other city, teaching the same sylabus for years, failed to play the piano- the only thing that he would like to do. When he had to go to a convention in the home town he found out that someone has lived in his house. Two illegal immigrants lived there together. When the couple wanted to leave the apartment, this professor asked them to stay for a while until ...  Read the complete review