Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

He sounds a little Gump-ish but looks good.

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

Did not expect this to be R rated

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

Doesn't work for me. I've watched too much Mr Rogers and too much Tom Hanks I think. There wasn't a moment I was watching it where I wasn't thinking "That's not Mr Rogers." Haven't seen any of the other recent Hanks bio pics but doubt I'd have the same issue. I've only seen Sully or Walt Disney in little clips here and there. Wasn't even a really big Mr Rogers kid but being of that era with only so much media you saw a lot of him and that's not Mr Rogers.

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

What is the plot of this movie? A jaded reporter does a profile of Fred Rogers and finds that he's a really nice man? That's not much of a story arc.

I had the pleasure of going to a lecture given by Mr Rogers as the keynote speaker for an annual AAP Conference in San Francisco in 1995 and it was one of the highlights of my life. The guy was really special and totally beloved. Of course, you would get that from the documentary last year if you didn't know it already. Not sure what this movie is hoping to achieve.

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

Loved the trailer. Can't wait to see it. Our world really needs Mr. Rogers right now.

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

Man, I heard the theme song on the TV upstairs during a PBS bumper and I started crying. I pretty much melted down watching that trailer. He meant so much in my life.

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

I think Hanks will get a nomination.

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

It's a very long read, but this is the source material for the movie. It's a 1998 Esquire article written by some journalist Tom Junod.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainmen...-hero-esq1198/

Matthew Rhys plays a fictionalized version of Junod. As you said, it's about a cynical journalist who is assigned to cover Fred for his story and learns more about who he is and they eventually became good friends.

I think this route was a better idea than just doing a straight forward bio on Fred's life until he became Mr. Rogers. Maybe Fred's childhood and young adult years just aren't that interesting to make as a movie. Fred really made an impact on TV, society and children as "Mr. Rogers"

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

Yeah the accent was very Gump-ish, but this looks decent.

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

I thought that trailer was really sweet. It definitely tugged at my heart strings.

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

If anyone here still hasn't seen "Won't you be my Neighbor?" It's a must watch. It's still airing on HBO and can be watched on HBO Go, Now etc. It's an amazing film.

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

I was one of those kids who, by the time I was approaching my teens, thought Mr. Rogers was weird. I didn't think about him again for many years until I had kids of my own and started following the news and had access to the internet. It was then that I learned about how authentic Rogers was. His Senate testimony is so genuinely moving. His relationship with Officer Clemmons is inspiring. I know no better compliment than to say that he was truly a good man. The documentary is fantastic and I guess I have another movie to add to my "must see" list.

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

I'm glad I wasn't the only one. I don't know what it is but something about Mister Roger's Neighborhood brings me immediately to my childhood. There are a lot of things from my childhood that I still watch or enjoy to some degree but maybe it's the simplicity and sincerity of Mister Rogers that remains timeless. I'm really looking forward to this.

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">That Face App is a joke. <a href="https://t.co/E2aY8z20XE">https://t.co/E2aY8z20XE</a></p>&mdash; Colin Hanks (@ColinHanks) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColinHanks/status/1154422237564325889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

Out this weekend. Currently 96% on RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_b..._neighborhood/

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

I didn't realize Heller was married to Jorma Taccone, that'd explain the appearance in MacGruber.

She's done three movies now, with an average RT score of 96%, impressive.

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

Are they actually releasing this outside of the U.S? Did Mr. Rogers run in other countries besides the U.S.?

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

Yes to both.

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/248...-mister-rogers

Apparently Tom Hanks and Fred Rogers are related. 6th cousins.

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

So Tom Hanks is related to Fred Rogers AND Abe Lincoln? F**k this guy! :lol:

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

Yuck, it looks as cloying as one would expect from a Hanks vehicle. Watch the Mr. Rogers documentaries instead. There's the real deal. No need for a saccharine biopic.

Re: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019, D: Heller) S: Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers
 

I thought this was great.

Definitely don’t go in expecting a biopic though. That’s not what this is.

Heller is 3 for 3.