The whole time I’m watching the trailer for The Terminal, Steven Spielberg’s new movie, I keep waiting for the announcement that this is based on a true story. I know I’ve read the story somewhere about a foreign guy who lived at an airport for years. BUT, in the trailer I see the date “2004” so it’s not set in the past, and I read this years ago.

Bizarre. “Hidalgo” trumpets that it’s based on a true story when it’s not. “Fargo” claims to be a true story; it’s not. And now a movie is made about a real life incident and makes no claims whatsoever. Maybe so that they didn’t have to pay the guy? (Could be that the currency of his home country no longer exists, so that would have been difficult.)