Tom McCarthy Welcomes The Visitor

By David Fear
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/screenwriting/article/tom_mccarthy_the_visitor_richard_jenkins_20080410/
It’s worth recounting the central premise of Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor to emphasize that what sounds potentially cloying or cringe-worthy on the page, and would probably sound like fingernails on a chalkboard to studio executives in a pitch meeting, can become something graceful, intimate and incredibly moving in the right hands.