"The Visitor"

I'm afraid that describing the bare bones of "The Visitor" -- in which a 60-ish widowed professor, played by character actor Richard Jenkins, reconnects with some previously lost part of himself after he befriends two illegal immigrants living in New York -- only makes it sound like the kind of movie you drag yourself to see out of a sense of duty, one of those nice little pictures that's so… » Full Story on Salon.com