Theatre Reviews & Features The Visitor is the poignant and urgent story of Walter, a lost soul who gets a new lease on life with the arrival of Terek, an undocumented immigrant who challenges Walter's capacity for acceptance, change, and even intimacy in the wake of his wife's passing. In it, Walter connects with Terek over a shared appreciation of music, a bond that slowly builds into a soul-stirring, unexpected friendship. Set in a culturally-divided post-9/11 New York City, The Visitorsuggests that the ties that bind us--music, passion, love--are far more powerful tools for healing than the things that tear us apart.
Thomas McCarthy's film The Visitoremerged as one of the true breakout independent films of the last decade, premiering to rave reviews at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and Sundance in 2008 before winning the 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Director and receiving an Academy Award nomination for leading actor Richard Jenkins in a stunning performance that would come to redefine the actor's entire career.
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