Marielle Heller, director of the Tom Hanks 'Mister Rogers movie' premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, wants audiences to know what to expect.
From the moment it was announced that Tom Hanks would play Fred Rogers in the movie “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” there has been an extremely high level of excitement and anticipation around the project. One beloved national icon portraying another seemed a natural fit.
. In the movie, Matthew Rhys plays a journalist assigned to write a profile of the children’s entertainer and finds his own cynicism dissolving when confronted with a philosophy of open-hearted goodness and acceptance.“There’s no part of it that’s a biopic,” Heller said in a recent interview. “I mean, Fred Rogers is not the protagonist of the movie and there’s no cradle-to-grave part of this story.“The thing is, Mister Rogers wouldn’t make a good protagonist for a movie,” she said.
Playing as a big-ticket premiere at a festival like Toronto ahead of opening in late November brings even more expectations. The movie is a presumed multicategory Oscar contender and has strong commercial prospects . Which is all the more reason, Heller said, that she would like for people to know just what they are getting when they buy a ticket.
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