• Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 04/25/2008
  • Running Time: 108 mins
  • Director: Tom McCarthy
  • Cast: Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira
  • Producer: Mary Jane Skalski, Michael London
  • Writer: Tom McCarthy
  • Distributor: Overture Films
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Box Office

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  2. Eagle Eye, 29.2 million, 29.2 million
  3. Nights in Rodanthe, 13.4 million, 13.4 million
  4. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  5. Lakeview Terrace, 7.0 million, 25.7 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. Fireproof, 6.8 million, 6.8 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Burn After Reading, 6.2 million, 45.6 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Igor, 5.4 million, 14.2 million
  12. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  13. My Best Friend's Girl, 3.9 million, 14.6 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. Righteous Kill, 3.7 million, 34.7 million
  17. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  18. Miracle at St. Anna, 3.5 million, 3.5 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys, 3.1 million, 32.8 million
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The Visitor

The Station Agent's writer-director, Tom McCarthy, follows up that surprise success with another self-consciously whimsical tale of an unlikely threesome—except this time he decides to get political, making a liberal-guilt-trip movie about first-world ignorance of third-world culture. When recently widowed Connecticut economics professor Walter Vale (the excellent character actor Richard Jenkins, in an unfortunately fussy, mannered performance) returns to his long-untended Manhattan apartment, he finds it occupied by a young Syrian emigre, Tarek (Haaz Sleiman), and his Senegalese girlfriend, Zainab (Danai Gurira), who've been swindled into thinking that the place is theirs. In the first of several dastardly turns toward the pious, Walter lets his unexpected houseguests stay on, in return for which Tarek teaches him how to play the African drum, and the grieving Walter starts to get his groove back. Then the ugly face of post-9/11 racial profiling comes along, landing the undocumented Tarek in a government detention center and spurring Walter's outrage that such things can happen in the supposed Land of the Free. (Who knew?) Nothing if not an equal-opportunity patronizer, McCarthy loads up the rest of the film with examples of Muslim-on-Muslim discrimination and self-consciously ironic flashes of pro-liberty propaganda. He undoubtedly means well, but he's made one of those incredibly naive movies that give liberals a bad name, and does more to regress the sociopolitical discourse than advance it. — Scott Foundas

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