The Countertop Chronicles

Just watched the trailer for a new Steven Speilberg / Tom Hanks movie about an Eastern European traveler who has his passport takem from him by the customs people at a New York Airport (there was a Coup in his homeland) and is told not to leave the airport. They end up forgetting about him and he makes a home in the airport, getting a job, etc etc etc.

The trailer is very well done and the movie strikes me as employing many of the same elements of Moscow on the Hudson and the Truman Show.

Also saw the trailer for Danny Deckchair, it looks like a delightful australian romantic comedy. It stars Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Little Nicky) as a laborer who, in his boredom, ties a bunch of helium balloons to a deck chair and floats off across australia, falling in love and becoming a new person and local celeb when he lands across the continent while his family and the police try to hunt im down to find out what happened.