A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
Country: US/CHI
Technical: col 109m
Director: Marielle Heller
Cast: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper, Susan Kelechi Watson
Synopsis:
Given an assignment to cover a children's TV host for his magazine's series on American Heroes, an angry investigative journalist is disarmed by his subject's lack of guile and apparently equal interest in him.
Review:
Based around the personage of real-life figure Fred Rogers, who tried to help young audiences confront negative feelings, Heller's affecting film is really about the journalist's coming to terms with his own personal issues. A film about feelings, then, and all the better for it, it avoids schmaltz mainly because Hanks's Rogers, and the characters interacting with him, are so genuine in their responses. It reminds us that we are never too old to accept a helping hand, and that the hardest people to forgive are those we love most.
Country: US/CHI
Technical: col 109m
Director: Marielle Heller
Cast: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper, Susan Kelechi Watson
Synopsis:
Given an assignment to cover a children's TV host for his magazine's series on American Heroes, an angry investigative journalist is disarmed by his subject's lack of guile and apparently equal interest in him.
Review:
Based around the personage of real-life figure Fred Rogers, who tried to help young audiences confront negative feelings, Heller's affecting film is really about the journalist's coming to terms with his own personal issues. A film about feelings, then, and all the better for it, it avoids schmaltz mainly because Hanks's Rogers, and the characters interacting with him, are so genuine in their responses. It reminds us that we are never too old to accept a helping hand, and that the hardest people to forgive are those we love most.
Country: US/CHI
Technical: col 109m
Director: Marielle Heller
Cast: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper, Susan Kelechi Watson
Synopsis:
Given an assignment to cover a children's TV host for his magazine's series on American Heroes, an angry investigative journalist is disarmed by his subject's lack of guile and apparently equal interest in him.
Review:
Based around the personage of real-life figure Fred Rogers, who tried to help young audiences confront negative feelings, Heller's affecting film is really about the journalist's coming to terms with his own personal issues. A film about feelings, then, and all the better for it, it avoids schmaltz mainly because Hanks's Rogers, and the characters interacting with him, are so genuine in their responses. It reminds us that we are never too old to accept a helping hand, and that the hardest people to forgive are those we love most.