When Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins), a widowed economics professor, travels to New York for a conference, he is surprised to discover that a young couple has been living in his apartment. Victims of a real estate scam, Tarek (Haaz Sleiman), a Syrian man, and Zainab (Danai Jekesai Gurira), his Senegalese girlfriend, are illegal immigrants with nowhere else to go. Reluctantly, Walter allows them to stay, and eventually forms a close bond with Tarek, as the young man teaches him how to play the hand drum. After Tarek is arrested in the subway and held for deportation, Walter is compelled by his renewed passion for life and sense of purpose to help his new friend through his desperate situation. Directed by Thomas McCarthy. With Hiam Abbass. Categories: Comedy, Drama, Independent Film. Year: 2007.
Haaz Sleiman and Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
Haaz Sleiman and Danai Jekesai Gurira in The Visitor
Haaz Sleiman in The Visitor
Danai Jekesai Gurira in The Visitor
Haaz Sleiman and Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
Haaz Sleiman, Danai Jekesai Gurira and Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
Danai Jekesai Gurira in The Visitor
Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
Hiam Abbass in The Visitor
Hiam Abbass and Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
Hiam Abbass in The Visitor
Haaz Sleiman in The Visitor
Hiam Abbass in The Visitor
Haaz Sleiman and Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
Haaz Sleiman in The Visitor
Hiam Abbass and Richard Jenkins in The Visitor
Richard Jenkins also appeared in The Witches of Eastwick, One Night at McCool's, Fun with Dick and Jane, Intolerable Cruelty, Step Brothers, Burn After Reading, Rumor Has It..., Me, Myself & Irene, and The Tale of Despereaux.
Hiam Abbass also appeared in The Limits of Control.
Marian Seldes also appeared in Home.
Richard Kind also appeared in Everyone's Hero and The Grand.
Thomas McCarthy also appeared in Meet the Parents, Year of the Dog, and Duplicity.