Here’s a confession: Although Tom Hanks is one of my favorite actors, and I got caught up in the skewed homespun mystique of Mister Rogers watching last year’s sublime documentary “Won’t You …
In “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” Hanks isn’t just good — he’s transporting. He takes on Mister Rogers’ legendary mannerisms and owns them, using them as a conduit to Rogers’ disarming inner spirit. He makes you believe in this too-nice-for-words man who is all about believing. “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” is a lovely, soft-hearted fable that works on you in an enchanting way. When the film comes out , there won’t be a dry eye in the megaplexes of America.
Directed by Marielle Heller , from a script by Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” is based on a 1998 Esquire cover story in which Tom Junod, the magazine’s star feature writer, set out to do a profile of Fred Rogers, only to learn that spending time, as an adult, with Mister Rogers was having a profound effect on him. It was cracking open his darkness, letting the sunshine in.
But Lloyd, as we learn, has major daddy issues. At the wedding for his sister’s third marriage, he runs into his father, Jerry , for the first time in years, and it’s not a pretty sight. Lloyd has so much rage that he punches his dad in the face. But if “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” were just a movie about how a beloved TV personality turned out to be an ardent life coach, it wouldn’t come to much. As the movie presents it, the fundamental oddity of Fred Rogers’ personality is that he relates to children so much because he himself is an overgrown child. That, in essence, has been the joke about him for 50 years.
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