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For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for The Visitor can be found here.

No. The Visitor is based on a script by American writer Thomas McCarthy, who also directed this film.

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It centers around a college professor who lives in Connecticut and the illegal immigrant couple he finds squatting in his apartment in New York. The main themes include: immigration, illegal and legal; Walter's malaise; The couple's influence on Walter; deportation; American views on immigrants; and the non-physical abuses of imprisoned illegal immigrants.

Not for ten years.