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"A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" - A fictionalized story, but based on an Esquire article, about a journalist who is sent to write a story on Mr. Rogers. This is not to be confused with the documentary that also came out in the last few years.
Tom Hanks plays Fred Rogers, and at first it was a bit uncanny valley, until I got used to it. Lloyd, the journalist, is a misanthrope. He's having trouble with his father, who wants to come back into Lloyd's life.
Through his assignment to write about Mr. Rogers, Lloyd learns to have emotions and to develop as a person. He's maybe 40? Married, and has a young child. I like these stories that are "coming of age" but not about teenagers. This kind of emotional growth can happen at any stage of life.
This film felt aimed at adults, despite being rated PG. It felt like it was about the adult struggle to live in the world as an emotional being, to value yourself, to value others. Mr. Rogers was into radical kindness, and it's wild to really spend time thinking about it-- the labor and discipline that must have involved. Mrs. Rogers says this at one point: Fred's way of being is a practice and it's achievable by other people.
Tom Hanks plays Fred Rogers, and at first it was a bit uncanny valley, until I got used to it. Lloyd, the journalist, is a misanthrope. He's having trouble with his father, who wants to come back into Lloyd's life.
Through his assignment to write about Mr. Rogers, Lloyd learns to have emotions and to develop as a person. He's maybe 40? Married, and has a young child. I like these stories that are "coming of age" but not about teenagers. This kind of emotional growth can happen at any stage of life.
This film felt aimed at adults, despite being rated PG. It felt like it was about the adult struggle to live in the world as an emotional being, to value yourself, to value others. Mr. Rogers was into radical kindness, and it's wild to really spend time thinking about it-- the labor and discipline that must have involved. Mrs. Rogers says this at one point: Fred's way of being is a practice and it's achievable by other people.
