See Hungry Man staring at people scarfing down Big Macs - Hilarious!

Rating: 3/10 (4 July 2004)

Directed by Stephen Spielberg. Enough to steer one to their nearest Cineplex. Advertised as an endearing comedy...
No mention that this film is based on the plight of a real human being who was held at the Charles De Gaulle (sp?) Airport for some 15 years, and was paid some $100,000 by the Spielberg people to use his plight as the basis for a fictional piece of garbage. The documentary I saw on CNN mentioned that the gentleman was now free to leave the airport, the glitch having been solved, but that his mental state was so fragile he still remained at the airport. Supposedly he bought some new clothes and books with part of the $100,000 he was paid.
No, it's not funny to see a hungry man watching airport travelers scarfing down burgers while he picks up the scraps. (Who the hell wrote this screenplay?) Nor is it endearing to find that the airline hostess who has a thing for married men is an OK broad because she doesn't ask her lover(s) to leave their wives! What a gal...
Yes, this could have been a good movie but it needed good and honorable (and honest) people to write it.
Waste of talent and money. Insulting to the real man caught in this dilemma.
Oh, yes - the set is Academy Award worthy. Yes, Tom Hanks is delicious and Stanley Tucci a vicious authority figure - what else? Catherine Zeta Jones is beautiful, if confused (as the written character).
What a dishonorable, disagreeable, and dishonest story. Where are the writers?