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Summary:

After a jaded magazine writer is assigned a profile of famed children's show host Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about empathy, kindness, and decency from America's most beloved neighbor.

Director:

Marielle Heller

Writers:

screenplay by Micah Fitzerman-Blue, Noah Harpster

based on the article "Can You Say... Hero?" by Tom Junod

Cast:

• Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers

• Matthew Rhys as Lloyd Vogel

• Susan Kelechi Watson as Andrea Vogel

• Chris Cooper as Jerry Vogel

• Enrico Colantoni as Bill Isler

• Maryann Plunkett as Joanne Rogers

• Tammy Blanchard as Lorraine

• Wendy Makkena as Dorothy

• Carmen Cusack as Margy

• Noah Harpster as Todd

• Maddie Corman as Betty Aberlin

• Christine Lahti as Ellen

• Stephen West-Rogers as Peter

Rotten Tomatoes:

Metacritic:

After Credits Scene? No

It's A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood premiered at TIFF last night and reviews have started to come out. Everyone is really giving high praise to Tom Hanks' performance as Mr. Rogers, saying he nailed it. Looks like he'll be a lock for a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the Oscars (and most likely the favorite for a win). Some have criticized the script but no major complaints. Looks like the biopic to beat for this year.

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus:

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Metacritic Score:

- Ella Kemp

“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” reminded me of how one person’s words can change the world. How their feeling, or at least their intense and sincere understanding of someone else’s, can save a life. This might be just one little movie, and one of so many reviews – but people like Mister Rogers and Marielle Heller exist to make life feel like you’re part of something so much bigger. [A+]

- Own Gleiberman

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is a soft-hearted fable that works on you in an enchanting way. Tom Hanks channels Mister Rogers — not just the mannerisms, but the mysterious inner spirit — in a drama about how the legendary children's TV host saves a magazine writer, and could maybe save the rest of us.

- Eric Kohn

Tom Hanks Was Born to Play Mister Rogers. Marielle Heller mines intelligent observations and storytelling twists from the ultimate sentimental subject. This sweet, unassuming movie has deeper sensibilities lurking beneath its surface, just like Rogers himself.

- Wendy Ide

It’s as cosy as Mr Rogers’ trademark zip-up cardigan, but the sweetness of this film about the beloved US children’s television personality is tempered by the inventive eccentricity of its approach.

- Todd Macarthy

Marielle Heller's film itself, however, is a rather more modest achievement, sympathetic and yet entirely predictable in its dramatic trajectory of making a believer of an angry, cynical journalist.

- Steve Pond

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood finds a gentle state of grace and shows the courage and smarts to stay in that zone, never rushing things or playing for drama. Mr. Rogers Film Is a Sweet Miracle.

Plot:

An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), grudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile of the beloved television icon Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks). Vogel's perspective on life is transformed after his encounter with Rogers.

Director:

Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Diary of a Teenage Girl)

Release Date:

November 22, 2019

Starring:

• Tom Hanks

• Matthew Rhys

• Susan Kelechi Watson

• Chris Cooper

• Enrico Colantoni

• Maryann Plunkett

Runtime:

107 Minutes

To give a bit of context, I'm British, so my knowledge of Mister Rogers is from the general zeitgeist, and that he was this lovely man who had this children's show where he taught children kindness. The only direct clip I'd ever seen of the show was of that kid in the wheelchair he interviewed on his show and then him surprising mister Rogers at some award show to present an award.

I really want to drive home my lack of knowledge about who mister Rogers was, and what he was about, because watching that film last night hit me like a big train of feelings and it was an emotional journey that I haven't been on with a film in a very very long time.

I thought it would be a light easy watch, and I was almost resisting throughout the first 20 mins, thinking "all this positivity and goodness nonsense is a bit cringe" but I could feel it pulling on me emotionally so I relaxed...and To say I was moved by that film would be an massive understatement.

I had no idea I was going to connect with Matthew Rhys' character, Lloyd, on the level that I did and how his thoughts and feelings would mirror many of my own. I'm sure a lot of men can see a lot of ourselves in Lloyd and his journey I think is an important one, especially for men to see, as we still dealing with resistance in society from being able to feel safe to express our feelings and be vunerable.

Tom hanks did something I've not really see him do before, which was not be Tom hanks anymore. He clearly put a lot of work into his posture, walking and voice and it was captivating, and I hope those who know mister Rogers better than I, think it was an accurate performance because the world doesn't deserve a man with goodness such as his.

I'm literally getting a bit choked up writing and remembering scenes and dialogue from the film, like the park bench scene with Lloyd and his wife or the line from Mister Rogers "anything mentionable is manageable"

I feel like that film on some level was the best therapy session I have never had.

The film, in the most kind and innocent way possible, challenges you and I urge anyone who hasn't seen to go watch it (it's on Netflix)

Would love to hear what others thought of the film too and if anyone else had their waterworks running on max whilst watching it haha!

Dare I say it? I thought his acting was even more powerful than in The Americans series.