Rolling Stone's 25 Best Movie Performances of 2019—from Tom Hanks' take on a TV icon and a hustling J-Lo to Awkwafina, Adam Sandler and more
When Marielle Heller’s movie was first announced, complete with early shots of Tom Hanks in that telltale cardigan-and-sneakers get-up, everyone assumed it would be a Fred Rogers biopic. Spoiler alert: It is not. It’s the tale of the friendship of a journalist based loosely onhost, with the TV icon acting as a sort of Magical Celebrity Life Coach.
So imagine the surprise viewers got when they saw what Hanks did with this oft-imitated public figure, how he brought out the man behind the “saintly” myth, the way he manages to turn Rogers into a sort of blank slate for people to project things on. Go directly to the sequence where the reporter and the older man are sitting in the latter’s apartment. Rogers asks about his interviewer’s mother, and finds out she died when he was a boy.
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