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MES film series presents: The Visitor

060 Eggers Hall

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The Visitor (2007) Directed by Thomas McCarthy, 103 minutes The Visitor is a drama about a college professor and recent widower, Walter Vale, who discovers a pair of illegal aliens who were the victims of a real-estate scam living in his New York apartment. After the mix-up is resolved, Vale invites the couple--a young, Syrian musician named Tarek and his Senegalese girlfriend--to stay with him. An unlikely friendship develops between the retiring, quiet Walt and the vibrant Tarek, and the former begins to loosen up and respond to Tarek's drumming lessons. All goes well until Tarek is hauled in by immigration authorities and threatened with deportation. 

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To mark our centennial in the fall of 2024, the Maxwell School will hold special events and engagement opportunities to celebrate the many ways—across disciplines and borders—our community ever strives to, as the Oath says, “transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.”

Throughout the year leading up to the centennial, engagement opportunities will be held for our diverse, highly accomplished community that now boasts more than 38,500 alumni across the globe.