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  • My friend watched this movie at her school and said it was an awesome movie

  • Was a very good movie.

  • CRAPPIES MOVIE I HAVE EVER WATCHED SRS

  • ha

  • Saw this today, it is a great movie. Great acting, plot, everything.

  • MALIK! XD

  • @richardson6631 just saw this movie read your comment up here. I share that same emotion, and added you as my first you tube friend.

  • Probably one of the most inspiring, heartfelt films I have seen in a long, long time. The cinematography, the score and the beautifully portrayed acting makes me want to shout for joy! I could watch this film over and over, it's extremely well done. Richard Jenkins is a marvel and the Visitor is a true masterpiece, so excellent! This should set the example for the film makes of today, just a good down to earth film with no violence, no sex and no added vulgarities just for entertainment. WOW!

  • I wazz literally crying.......!!!!!

    

  • @gdawn6812

    Yeah, go listen to your Faux Noise.

  • @gdawn6812 do you know how hard it is to deal with immigration? No matter how hard you work to make things right or to get you papers its impossible. Everyone has a right to live in peace and to make a life. No matter how honest people are to try to get their visas immigration makes the illegals become illegals.

  • Is a good movie

    Cultural, and teaches you a lot of stuff.

  • This trailer alone makes me want to cry.

  • i think this is a horror movie lol not this kind of bullshit!

  • anchor bay is bought and sold

    this narrative that helps the educated elite excuse their role in turning the US into a fascist police state for their own profit and benefit

    while propsing that homeland security prison guards making $10 hour to feed their families are powerful people that control their own and the country's fate'

    racist classist propagandist piece of shit

    when you want to assault poor African-Americans, always hire a foreign black dupe to help you sell your hate lies

  • excelente pelicula.

  • i was in search of aliens not this bullshit

  • whats the music that starts at 1:33 called

  • just saw it and absolutely loved it. I would kill for second movie

  • @AmeliaLT this is not your average action movie lol . I highly doubt there will be a second movie although I would like to see it too.

  • Reminds me of Breaking Bad.

  • @Amino2 Yeah because the guy doesn't have cancer and he is drumming... he's drumming meth? I don't get it. The only similarity is an old guy makes friends with a young guy. But in Breaking bad all they ever do is fight.

  • A great movie about friendship, when I watched it thats what rang through to me because maybe thats what I am serching for. I never got preached at about illegal immigration, I was enjoying the beat of the drum of friendship.

  • this movie tries to make excuses for illegal immigration. it doesn't matter if the immigrants are nice people, They still Broke the Law. there's reason these laws are there.

  • @FrodoBaggins1575 While that's true, life is often more complicated that. The question is not, "Is breaking the law acceptable or not?" but "What circumstances led these people to take that action?" No one WANTS to migrate illegally, but often times circumstances seem so dire and opportunities so limited that people feel it is their only option. It is way too easy to judge when you come from privelage and have been given opportunities others haven't, and I am as guilty of judging as anyone.

  • @rh1252 I agree with you that it's hard and i'm not trying to judge. But what about the Immigrants who are working hard to enter the country legally? is it fair to them that line jumpers get rewarded for breaking the law? one of the many reasons people should enter the country legally is because border patrol and other people have been attacked by illegals. i'm not saying all illegals are bad or have malicious intent, but some do and thats why we have these immigration laws.

  • @FrodoBaggins1575 I respect that. Honestly though this character should've gotten a Citizenship. He was working hard and even knew the language didn't hide in arabic neiborhood and try not to learn.

  • @FrodoBaggins1575 The movie doesn't make excuses - in fact the mother in the film clearly states it's her fault for throwing out the letter. The point is that we need firmer laws, but also fairer treatment once someone it found to be illegal.

  • @dsutari you may be right.

  • Both of Penn and Jenkins are amazing actors, but Jenkins deserve the Oscar i think.. and Penn already won before, i thought its Rourke or Jenkins chance, and Richard Jenkins is really great actors, he seems forgoten in hollywood but his small character in every movie is great, i still remember he played as Jennifer Aniston's father ,i forgot the movie, and his latest project in "Dear John" is so amazing!

  • why the fuck didn't anyone cast Richard Jenkins in any other lead roles before this movie??? 

  • God I love this movie

  • a great movie

  • what a terrible over-sentimental trailer that makes the movie look like a cliched award bait. But the actual film is anything but that. It contains fully realized characters with wonderful subtle acting. Whoever edited this trailer should be ashamed of themselves for making it look like usual hollywood shit that is marketed to the lowest common denominator.

  • @ff7reborn You should be ashamed of yourself for being ashamed at a movie trailer. And it wasn't Hollywood shit, it was an indie that was bought by Overture. So now, shut the fuck up.

  • The way the girl screamed at 0:24 made me jump.

  • About movie: This is NOT the way people should be Treated by US Gov.!

    Shame on US.

    There are terrorist, yes... But there are still GOOD PEOPLE in the world. Respect Human Rights !

    Esta nao deveria ser a forma do Governo Americano tratar os imigrantes! QUE VERGONHA! Há terroristas no mundo, sim. Mas há ainda pessoas boas. DIREITOS (E DIGNIDADE) HUMANOS JÁ!

  • Extraordinary film. The final scene is brilliant.

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  • i just finished watching the movie , and this trailer its even more depressingly sad lol =(

  • Good movie.

  • Great clean direction work! and Jenkins realy amazing!

  • When he saw the black girl.. I fckin Twiched..

  • Is this movie on DVD yet? I wanna see this movie but can't find it anywhere.

  • @Szederp no way!

  • Why are idiots putting in spoilers?

  • @omoxus Yeah, not only that but the spoilers are so detailed. almost too detailed to be by accident.

  • @omoxus dunno, maybe because they're idiots? fuck, you must be stupid..

  • The ending was beautiful. Tarek left a legacy with Walter with the African drum after he got deported. =(( sad but happy at the same time. I know these fictional characters met up again..That would be my ending 

  • @freedomland11

    mine too.

  • @freedomland11 Maybe you should of said *SPOILER ALERT* in your comment. You ruined the movie for alot of people.

  • @diva1675 ohh shit.. MY BAD..."Spoiler ALERT"

  • lol dumbass said call the police when they broke in to someones apartment

  • my professor made us watch this movie. YAY!

  • continuation - . I liked the filme until the part I sow the message came to leave clear " you cant help people ilegal againts the rules, and peoples like tarik, that they consider allways bad bec a lot politic reasons, cant get easy one license to being. The filme could be better if had showed other kind of message.

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    But bad people if really wish be in one coutry get suport of bad politic and from strong criminal organization but who suffer is normal people that go to others countries trying to find a chance to get better life..

  • What a pity, the end of the filme was one deception. He didnt marry the woman , left she go back to her coutry, even knowing she will face problems. In the filme i got one message - he helped as he could but in the filme they didnt show the success of Tarik being in the coutry and heve chance to not go, bec they dont wanna show that this kind of "people " can get it easy.

  • Amazingly awesome movie. I cried like crazy of satisfaction, pain and understandment. Deserves all the oscars it could get.

  • For all the people who have not seen this, you must! :D

    One of the greatest films of all time. Explores of emotion every human. Pain, Sadeness, Happiness, etc. :)

  • What the fuck is with borders anyway. So you don't have a passport (Neither do I) But that doesn't mean that you should get arrested or beaten for just trying to enter another country. I say FUCK borders. The government should just remove the borders, all they do is cause trouble and make innocent people look like criminals.

  • @manapple00 the world would be fucked with out border lines dont be stupid

  • Best Movie of 2009 imo

  • i hate the way the flim ends to fucking depressin

  • ill be honest it's hard for me to tell between someone hispanic, mexican, or latino. some people would think that's racist.

  • @clay10h: Hispanic covers anyone from Mexico, Central America, South America, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and most of the Caribbean Islands, except for Jamaica and Haiti. Latino is similar but it only covers people from Mexico, Central America, Cuba, and Dominican Republic. Mexican only covers people from Mexico. So if someone is Mexican, they're also Hispanic and Latino. Latino and Hispanic are pretty much the same thing typically.

  • @ian4040 why does it matter? a person is a person, regardless.

  • the real Visitors exist from ever on the Earth;are the Jews! see about teory of Zacaria Sitchin , Corrado Malanga ,about ;Alien Abductions, Ufo and Annunaki, Nibiru, Human & choosen people, GOLD & Economic Crise (NWO) !

  • this movie was brillian Richard jenkins one word amazing he was so gd in the movie and i respect him for picking this kind of role

  • Richard Jenkins is underrated

  • @SamDeRe81 ur sick

  • While I know a few illegal hispanics from Central and South America, the ones that I see really abusing the system are the Europeans. They come here from a better economical position, don't have the desperate work ethic that Hispanics have and take further advantage because they can assimilate into society by not fitting the stereotypical profile of a illegal alien, i.e, a non-white. Why are all illegal aliens in movies portrayed by minorities? BTW,This was excellent movie.

  • This movie has lots of good things about it, BUT the characters keep saying the Syrian guy who gets detained "did nothing wrong." In the movie, he did nothing wrong to provoke the cops who stopped him. But he HAD done something wrong by staying in the country without a visa. It is not racist or unfair to deport people who stay without a visa. Any other country would (and should) do the same.

  • amazing movie

  • @GlesgaRangersBouncey you forget that "your country" was made for people who doesnt live there.. its maded from inmigrants.

    you call "your country" .. so tell me, what do YOU do for YOUR COUNTRY?

    complaining about inmigrants is not a way to help your people

    ASSHOLE

  • @judas28 Ok im getting in on this, Im pure blooded native american, and my family has seen OUR country be passed around from raise to raise when in all reality, its OUR country!

  • someone should show this to the BNP.

  • In the midst of mayhem we need this picture

  • I was born in the richest country in the world. Came legally in the US at age 7 then was illegally cause my visa ran out and had to leave for 10 years. It sucks, I don't even speak my own language lol how messed up is this? America is not just people born there, that belongs to the Indians that they got rid of.

  • I got to watch this movie at Films43 . com

  • A very fine movie indeed. Artfully understated, socially relevant, apt messages. Soulfully endearing people...helping people. From the same talent that brought us The Stationmaster...another superb film.

    I so wanted to see a brief epilogue of Walter queuing up to purchase a ticket to Damascus. Oh well. One can imagine...

    By the way, this new "all or nothing" youtube rating system is a sadly dummied-down and UNinformative insult to its users. Shame on youtube.

  • @unusualmusician Take Heart, the Director tells Richard Jenkins on the Directors Commentry part of the DVD that when he wrote the screen play he always had in mind that Walter does go to Syria to find Mouna. ;)

  • this was a great movie, which i highly recommend to anyone who is thinking about watching it. the director set his sights on jenkins because "he has this wonderful everyman quality," which i think really powers the movie.

  • . acting is brilliant, and it happens to real people all the time, which makes the story more gripping. utterly utterly utterly fantastic film

  • Jenkins may be one of the most overlooked talents of all time.

  • @RuralNler92 I agree. He's one of my favorite actors, and he brings such an intensity to everything he does.

  • Does ANYBODY know what song/score is playing at the endish-middle of the trailer?

  • Fantastic film. The acting, setting is all just so brilliant. What a sad ending.

  • @MissJasperHale18 I agree totally

  • its a quiet....but very good movie

  • hahaha i thot it was bout aliens too lol

  • i thought this movie was about aliens :(

  • haha, me to ^_^

  • heyhas anyoneheard of this movie:it has a husband and wife livingin the middle of no where and these people come with masks on and at the end these church boys come and one boy touches the wife and shegoes aaaaaaaaaaaaah cant really explain it and grabs his arm and then its the end

  • The Strangers

  • I watch a lot of sci fi, fantasy horror movie, and sometimes I forget just how healthy it is for me to watch movies which are just about people, and the was of the world.

    Movies about people, for people.

  • I just watched this movie.....of course crying.

    I knew people who had been deported.

  • @MashaMichelle Is it a good movie? i would like to rent it maybe.. It seems like a beautiful movie

  • Good, but sad.

  • I just watched it on netflicks and was held by it the entire time. Well worth watching they should do a sequel the cast was surperb. Got me wanting to go to New Orleans this weekend to do something with my family I miss the vibe of a city especially the music Pre Katrina that was the place to go. Baton rouge could have something like that if the thugs would disappear.

  • Actually do listen to me...this movie was a waste lol...no one knows about this movie for good reason

    Many people don't know about the Legend of 1900 and it's a great movie. So what a whole bunch of people don't know about a movie. Doesn't make it any less good.

  • @TVwriter23 this is one of the few good mvs made recently tbqh

  • @TVwriter23 Cinema Paradiso is my favorite film of all time, but The Legend of 1900 was just sap.

  • @ Godfather921: You are indeed as UFC915 points out, immature and ill informed. This is a great film, folks. Netflix it.

  • Godfather you obviously shouldn't share your opinions you make no sense and don't have the slightest constructive criticism at all. The comment was very immature. Anyone who watches this trailer don't take Godfather921 advice, this movie is great and is deep. The movie is mainly on Walter's CHARACTER. This is a great film that wasn't given enough attention. I am glad Richard Jenkins was nominated at the Oscars for his performance, it was awesome!

  • i go with UFC915. it is immature, rude. u may had thought u were right in ur own words, but ur only a flaw. not greater then those u acted to insult but ur below them, i give u a three maybe b,c of ur acting ;D

  • and i give you a 1/10 for your sucky review.

  • the subtlety in this film is incredible. the acting, the story, the music, they all move by increment until the very end. it will leave u with a haunting image of professor walter vale playing the african drum in the subway station. having lived in new york for almost six years mite have biased me but i really luvd this film.

  • this movie is AWESOME!!!

    i never cried so much watching a movie before like this.

    oh my!!!!!!!!!!!

    great actors!!!!! :)

  • This movie started out good, but I was disapointed by the outcome. As opposed to what the trailer suggests there is actually not that much drumming in the movie and also has a very inconclusive, sad ending. sorry that's just my opinion

  • This is really a good movie. I like it a lot. The story, music and the actors.

  • Beautiful

  • fabulous movie, superb direction and best acting.. 10/10

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  • i wanna watch it but i know im gonna cry like a bitch so im gonna wait till my girlfriend leaves

  • LMAO...LMAO...LMAO

  • I am crying alright

  • @bigdog7013 oh you will i did!ahaah

  • @bigdog7013 LMAO!

  • looks great.

  • One of the best movies I've seen in a long time.

  • Could anyone tell me what the mild, soft background music is???

  • @heimer33 Music composed for the film you can buy it from Amazon

  • Could everyone here please stop arguing about immigration like a bunch of idiots?

  • this was a great movie, probably one of the only serious dramas iv wathced all the way through without ever wanting to miss anything

  • Great movie i saw it in my film class...i think movies like this should get more props

  • this movie is awesome

    just saw it

  • hahaha ftw! You are on the border of insanity

  • No, because not all the people in the whole world are like you!

    What kinf of education did you parents give you?

    Your comment left as a lot to think about you...

  • I can stand that, maybe that could be true, but that doesn't happen everywhere.

    That just happens somewhere where persons weren't loved by their parents, or didn't have a good education.

    I know lots of people who do good things like in the movie without even askinf for anything.

    But as you said, we are from diferent worlds...

  • what are u talking about? u didnt even see the movie and ur making such irrational comments.

    for ur info. the black girl, zainab, did not fuck anybody. get ur facts right mister.

  • omg 2:03 is thee part where it touched me :) soo powerful:)

  • what a good film, just watched in today. got to say i liked how the old man came across. very funny to me and it just made me want to learn how to play the drums. its a flim to defo watch.

  • 2:15 epicness...

  • i was not born here in the U.S. but i didn't come here in an illegal way either i have no problems with illegals either. the only thing i have problems with is due to the fact of me being hispanic i get assumed that i'm mexican or illegal and i get discriminated. Well i've met a lot of europeans too who are illegal but the difference is they are white. truth is its just a lot of people being racist towards one another, but i'm not saying its all of them and this isnt suppose to be a racist thing

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  • @crzysc123 Even Americans are Europeans

  • @crzysc123

    European illegal immigrants in the USA? ... please give me an example.... i cant for the life of me imagine that someone from europe (as you said: whites, so mostly central europeans) have the need to illegaly go to the USA... you can get there legally very easily, sorry!

  • @crzysc123 I totally agree. And for the life of me, I can't understand why on EARTH relations aren't better between Latinos and blacks in the US. I believe part of it has to do with many latinos not being 'minorities' in their own countries and then coming to a place where they are no longer the majority. I recently had a very similar reality to the white guy --where I met illegals and fell in love with them, in awe of how amazing they are. I don't think immigration will change, not really.

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  • I knew there would be some type of racism in the comments.

    Youtube=good ol home of racist idiots

  • @OneUnderground

    31 thumbs up for your comment - you see: youtube = a bad home for racists idiots!

  • I liked the movie.

  • the ending was sad..=(

  • richard jenkins deserved the oscar nomination. actually he deserved to win, but after nearly twenty years of having supporting roles he finally got the role that made him a star and not just a character actor.

  • you're defiantly right about that...jenkins was outstanding in this film..rightfully deserving the nomination but he's been producing good work since "north country"

  • This film is an excellent example of "Evolutionary Guidance Media" (EGM).

  • that looks like a nice show

  • This movie is wonderful. great story ,music & performances... leaving you with a few things to think about.

  • Vlad Tepes! Vlad Tepes! Vlad tepes!

  • I thought this film is a true story. I seen it three times.

  • oooo ok how all youfucks just shut the fuck up and watch the goddamn trailer? north korea al queda who gives ashit

    watch the fuckin trailer

    if u want to debate then debate somewhere else. all we want to do is watch thsi goddamn trailer

  • Um...you don't have to read the comments. I don't think they effect your enjoyment of this excellent trailer. Carry on.

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  • I'll be up all night over that one Mr. Email then block. Classy and obviously took extensive thought.

    Don't make me feed you some Tofu.

  • Word

  • Having an issue with illegal immigration is fine. Im not fond of human beings living in teh shadows of our society either. for numerous reasons. It's your tone. What part of TONE do you not understand? You dumbasses always come at the issue like the illegals are bad people. You'd do the same damn thing in their situation. Debating the issues is one thing, demonizing the people is another.

    Well, don't mind me, just going to go make a seared tofu dish and have a vegan burger. Want one?

  • No, the US cant' take in every last immigrant seeking a better life. But at the same time, we should be doing all we can to aid those taht look to this country for a better life. that's exactly what America is about. brain dead, reactionary right wing nut.

  • This was filmed just before the illegal robbed and killed him .