beautiful day in the neighborhood

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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Neighbor. Icon. Friend.

20191 h 49 min

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An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.

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Director Marielle Heller

Runtime 1 h 49 min

Release Date 7 September 2019

Original Music Composer Nate Heller

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Starring: Matthew Rhys, Tom Hanks, Chris Cooper, Susan Kelechi Watson, Maryann Plunkett, Enrico Colantoni, Wendy Makkena, Tammy Blanchard, Noah Harpster, Carmen Cusack, Kelley Davis, Christine Lahti, Maddie Corman, Daniel Krell, Jon L Peacock, Gretchen Koerner, Gavin Borders, Mark August, Tressa Glover, Jessica Hecht, Di Zhu, Diane Monroe, Maxine Roach, Lesa Terry, Tahirah Whittington, Nigel Swinson, Kayla Fan, Alexander Ment, Madeline Ment, Olivia Irene Ruiz, Kiesse Yengo-Passy, Marcel Kottmann, John Castagliola, Preston Lopez, Reginald Bannerman, Spencer Lott, Haley Jenkins, Marc Petrosino, Kathleen Kim, Kathleen Antonia, Saira Awan, Krizia Bajos, Tom Bonello, Gregory Bromfield, Francesca Calo, Kitty Crystal, Amy Lyn Elliott, Joe Fishel, Nate Heller, Bill Isler, Kevin L. Johnson, Rosie Koster, Michael Masini, Kirsten McCain, Patrick McDade, David Newell, Trevor Stevie Ray Ontiveros, Keith Otto, Khary Payton, Alex Pérez, Katrina E. Perkins, Jivan Xander Ramesh, Scott Rapp, Fred Rogers, Joanne Rogers, Edlyn Sabrina, Erika Shrout, Laura Faye Smith, Rebecca Watson, Stephen West-Rogers, Ted Williams, Jackson Nunn

Maybe you need to have grown up in the US, where Mr Rogers captured the hearts and minds of generations growing up, but for me this felt like a bland, TV movie given the big name treatment.

Then again, given our childhood heroes in the UK all turned out to be creepy as heck (dammit, Rolf!) maybe, just maybe, I can’t appreciate it when someone turns out to be as nice as they seemed.