Andy wrote:
> John Kane said...
>
>> Airlines can be fined for transporting people with inadequate
>> documentation or whom are not eligible to enter the destination
>> country.
>>
>> Plus some of the arrivals are legitimate refugees who may have had no
>> valid documentation anyway.
>
>
> There was a comedy/romance/tragedy movie about a man who arrived by plane
> into NY but between the time he left and arrived, his country's government
> was overtaken in a coup or something and he wasn't allowed entry. He couldn't
> fly back home due to no diplomatic relations. Instead he lived, slept and
> worked at the airport for months. It was a "C" movie with a happy ending.
>
> The actor was Tony Shalhoub, iirc, the man who plays Monk, the germophopic
> detective.


Either you don't recall or there was another movie along the same lines.
"The Terminal" starred Tom Hanks.