The Visitor (2008)

This movie is about a college professor, Walter, who is in a depression. He has to go back to New York to present a paper the he had "co-written." He goes to his apartment to find out that illegal immigrants, Tarek and Zainab, have taken up residency. He allows them to stay for a while. Walter is fascinated by Tarek's drum and he teaches him how to play. Tarek gets arrested in a subway and is sent to a detention center. Walter hires a lawyer to try to get him out. Meanwhile, Tarek's mother visits from Michigan but she is also an illegal immigrant so she can't visit her son or she'll be kept at the detention center herself. Walter and Tarek's mother begin to get romantically involved. Tarek gets deported back to Syria and his mother decides to go too knowing that she can never come back. Walter has been uplifted somewhat by this whole experience and is last seen playing his drum in the subway.

Overall, it wasn't a bad movie, but very average.

70/100

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