A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
This is an advance review out of the Toronto International Film Festival. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood opens in the US on Nov. 22 and in the UK on Dec. 6.
Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys) hands his first draft of his profile of Mister Rogers (Tom Hanks) to his editor. Exasperated, he explains his whole hesitation about the piece, saying “I just don’t know if he’s real.” This is not an uncommon reaction to the lore around Fred Rogers.
A children’s television icon, Mister Rogers’ has a reputation as a sort of god amongst men – with many wondering if the person they’ve grown up with is the same off the air. In the Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Can You Ever Forgive Me?)-directed A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, we get the application of Mister Rogers’ guiding principles to an extremely jaded writer. The result is a story that’s equal parts heartfelt and hilarious.
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