The film opens with an episode of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" in 1998. Mr. Rogers sings "Won't You Be My Neighbor" as he hangs up his jacket and puts on his sweater and shoes. He then displays a picture board with five doors. Three doors are open to reveal the familiar faces of Lady Aberlin, King Friday, and Mr. McFeely. The fourth door opens to reveal the face of Mr. Rogers' troubled new friend, Lloyd Vogel, who has a black eye and a cut near his nose. Mr. Rogers explains that Lloyd has been hurt and is struggling to forgive the one who hurt him. After explaining what forgiveness means, Mr. Rogers leaves to visit Lloyd.
Lloyd Vogel is a journalist for Esquire magazine known for his cynical writing. He is nervous about attending his sister Lorraine's third wedding because his estranged father, Jerry, whom he has long held a grudge against, is also attending. However, he attends with his wife Andrea and their newborn son, Gavin. During the reception, Lloyd is approached by Jerry, who notes his son's new family. When Jerry makes a joke about Lloyd's deceased mother Lila—whom he cheated on and abandoned when she was dying of cancer twenty years earlier—this enrages Lloyd into punching his father and starting a chaotic brawl, in which he is punched against the wall by another guest, explaining the scar on his face.
Lloyd's editor, Ellen, assigns him to interview children's television presenter Fred Rogers for a 400-word article about heroes. Lloyd feels that the assignment is beneath him, but is informed that none of the other heroes were willing to talk to him. Lloyd is still cynical about Mister Rogers. He wonders whether Mister Rogers is "for real" or if he is just acting. Lloyd travels to the WQED studio in Pittsburgh to interview Fred Rogers. Rogers is dismissive of his own fame and shows concern for Lloyd's nose injury. With coaxing, Lloyd relates some of the issues he has with his father, including his father's apology and attempt at reconciliation, which Lloyd has rebuffed. Rogers tells Lloyd about ways he deals with anger, including striking the keys of a piano.
Lloyd is determined to expose Fred Rogers' friendly persona as an act. He watches several episodes of Rogers' show, but can't find anything to support his theory. When Rogers visits New York, Lloyd interviews him again. Rogers seems to dodge Lloyd's questions, and instead reminisces about raising his two sons. When Rogers takes out his puppets and asks Lloyd about his childhood stuffed rabbit and his father, Lloyd abruptly ends the interview. Jerry and his wife Dorothy arrive at Lloyd's house while he is talking with Andrea. They brought pizza, which they share while catching up. However, the conversation quickly turns tense as they argue about Jerry's absence during Lila's cancer progression and his self-development since then. As Lloyd relates how his mother suffered hysterically in her last moments with only him and his sister present, Jerry suffers a heart attack and is transported to the hospital.
Lloyd is faced with his resurgent trauma when he has to spend the night at the hospital with Jerry. He decides to go to Pittsburgh to see Rogers for counsel, ostensibly to work on a project for Andrea. However, Andrea objects to Lloyd going to Pittsburgh. Exhausted on arriving at the hospital, he envisions himself as Mr. Rogers' guest. He imagines Mr. Rogers asking him about hospitals, replying that he's exhausted. Lloyd Vogel finds himself in a surreal dream. He is wearing rabbit ears and has shrunk to the size of Daniel Striped Tiger and King Friday XIII. Rogers and Andrea (as Lady Aberlin) tower over him. In another dream, Lloyd encounters Lila, who recognizes his anger at forgetting her. She assures him that she does not need him to remember her. Lloyd awakens to find that he has collapsed on the set.
After Lloyd is injured in a fight with Jerry, Rogers and his wife, Joanne, take Lloyd to their home to recuperate. While there, Rogers encourages Lloyd to think about the people who loved him into being and to forgive Jerry. Lloyd visits Jerry and Dorothy at their home, where he learns that Jerry is dying of cardiac stenosis. He realizes that Jerry's attempt to reconnect was because he knew he was dying. Lloyd forgives Jerry, promises to be a better father, and writes an article about Rogers' impact on his life. Dorothy tells Lloyd that Jerry had never mentioned his previous marriage or children until recently, after he became ill.
Lorraine, her husband Todd, and Rogers visit Jerry. Before Rogers departs, he asks Jerry to pray for him. Shortly after Rogers' visit, Jerry dies. Lloyd's 10,000-word article, "Can You Say... Hero?" is published as Esquire's cover story. In his studio, Fred Rogers opens the fifth and final door on his picture board, revealing a picture of Lloyd happily reunited with his family. The film ends with Mr. Rogers singing "It's Such a Good Feeling" as he goes through his post-show routine of taking off his sneakers, unzipping his cardigan sweater, hanging it up, putting his jacket back on, and walking out the door. After Mr. Rogers walks out the door, the film shows a replay of the final scene, with Mr. Rogers playing the piano by himself. He stops playing, strikes the keys in frustration, and then resumes playing.
Matthew Rhys as Lloyd Vogel: A cynical journalist who is assigned to profile Fred Rogers for the magazine Esquire. Lloyd is based loosely on journalist Tom Junod, whose encounter with Rogers was adapted into the film. Director Marielle Heller described Lloyd as the viewer's "entry point into Fred's teachings" and expressed hope that Lloyd's character development and growth as a new father would compel viewers to reflect upon themselves.[5]
Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers: The creator and host of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. To prepare for his role, Hanks visited the Fred Rogers Center at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, for research in the Fred Rogers Archives[6] and also watched Won't You Be My Neighbor?, a 2018 documentary film. At the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, Hanks recalled watching "hundreds of hours" of footage of Rogers on set and behind the scenes in order to get into character.[7] Heller noted that Rogers "doesn't have the dynamic nature you need for a protagonist for a movie" and considered him "the antagonist [...] who comes into someone's life and flips it upside down through his philosophy and the way he lived his life".[5]
Susan Kelechi Watson as Andrea Vogel: A public attorney, Lloyd's wife, and a fan of Rogers' show. Watson, herself a fan of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, described her character as a "career woman" who faces unique challenges of patience and adaptation as the mother of a newborn.[8]
Chris Cooper as Jerry Vogel: Lloyd's estranged father and a philanderer who cheated on his dying wife Lila and abandoned Lloyd and Lorraine when they were children. In a press interview for the film, Cooper described his character as "multidimensional" and compared filming a scene with Hanks to seeing the "eyes of God".[9]
Maryann Plunkett as Joanne Rogers: Fred's wife. Plunkett met with Joanne Rogers to prepare for the role.[10]
Enrico Colantoni as Bill Isler: The President & CEO of Family Communications. In a radio interview, Colantoni said he became friends with the real Bill Isler while filming and described his character as having been "so important to Fred".[11]
Wendy Makkena as Dorothy Vogel: Jerry's second wife. Makkena described her character as part of Vogel's "dysfunctional, complicated family".[12]
Tammy Blanchard as Lorraine Vogel: Lloyd's sister and Todd's wife.
Noah Harpster as Todd: Lorraine's husband and Lloyd's brother-in-law.
Additional cast members include Carmen Cusack as Margy, a producer of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood; Jessica Hecht as Lila Vogel, Lloyd's late mother and Jerry's ex-wife; Maddie Corman as Betty Aberlin, an actress starring as Lady Aberlin on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood; Daniel Krell as Mr. McFeely; and Jordan, Naomi, and Zoey Harsh as Gavin Vogel, Lloyd's son.[13]
Notable cameos in the film include Rogers' wife Joanne, Mr. McFeely actor David Newell, Family Communications head Bill Isler, and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood producer Margy Whitmer[14] who appear as customers in a restaurant that Rogers and Lloyd meet in. Arsenio Hall and Oprah Winfrey make uncredited appearances in archive footage of talk shows that Lloyd watches in the film, and Fred Rogers appears in archive footage of his show during the ending credits, singing the song "You've Got to Do It".
Production
Development
On January 29, 2018, it was announced that Sony's TriStar Pictures had bought the worldwide distribution rights to the film You Are My Friend, a biographical film based on a 1998 Esquire magazine article about television personality Fred Rogers, who would be played by Tom Hanks.[15] The script by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster appeared on the 2013 Black List of best unproduced screenplays. It would be directed by Marielle Heller; its producers would be Big Beach's Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf along with Youree Henley.[15]
Principal photography began on September 10, 2018, in Pittsburgh, with several sets converted into New York City.[21] Filming also took place in the Fred Rogers Studio at WQED (TV) where the late television host recorded Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and at the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill. The crew consulted with original crew members from Rogers' television series, and brought in the same cameras and monitors used in the original production.[22] The film received tax credits of approximately $9.5 million against a production budget of $45 million for filming in Pittsburgh.[23] Production wrapped on November 9, 2018.[citation needed]
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood grossed $61.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $6.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $68.4 million, against a production budget of $25 million.[3][2]
In the United States and Canada, it was released alongside Frozen II and 21 Bridges, and was projected to gross around $15 million from 3,231 theaters in its opening weekend.[32] It made $4.5 million on its first day, including $900,000 from Thursday night previews. It went on to debut to $13.3 million, finishing third at the box office.[33][34] It fell just 11% in its second weekend, making $11.8 million and finishing fifth, and remained in fifth place the following weekend with $5.2 million.[35][36]
Critical response
Tom Hanks (pictured in 2019) was praised by critics for his performance as Fred Rogers
On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 95% based on 372 reviews, with an average rating of 8/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Much like the beloved TV personality that inspired it, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood offers a powerfully affecting message about acceptance and understanding."[37] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 80 out of 100, based on 50 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[38] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an average four out of five stars, with 66% saying they would definitely recommend it.[34]
Steve Pond of TheWrap wrote: "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood finds a gentle state of grace and shows the courage and smarts to stay in that zone, never rushing things or playing for drama... But just as Mr. Rogers used his show to talk about big issues with children in a tone that was softer and more halting than you'd expect given the subject matter, so does Heller stick to understatement in a way that threatens to become dull or sappy but never does."[39] Benjamin Lee of The Guardian wrote: "It's a given that Hanks will nab at least a best supporting actor nomination but it would be all too easy to forget his co-star. The cynic-becomes-a-believer arc is age old but it unfolds here without cliche thanks to an emotionally intelligent script from Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue, but mainly because of a marvelous, prickly turn from Rhys."[40]
Armond White of the National Review was more critical: "Heller and screenwriters Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster don't show enough faith in Rogers' remedies—and not enough interest in their religious origins. In short, the movie seems wary of faith (it briefly mentions that Rogers was an ordained minister) and settles for secular sentimentality to account for his sensibility and behavior. This not only weakens the film, but it also hobbles Hanks's characterization."[41]
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