A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
U/A: Biography, Drama
Director: Marielle Heller
Cast: Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper, Susan Kelechi Watson, Enrico Colantoni, Maryann Plunkett
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We in India may not have had first-hand experience of Mr Rogers and his life-transforming, legendary TV show targeted at kids but this film helmed by Marielle Heller lets us experience that incredible power.

Tom Junod's exemplary Esquire profile of Mr Rogers, "Can You Say ... Hero?" is the same profile that gives "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" its premise - but Lloyd Vogel (Mathew Rhys) becomes the award-winning, non-conformist, cynical journalist (whom most celebrities refuse to be interviewed by) and Mr Rogers (played by the impeccably brilliant Tom Hanks) inevitably becomes the subject.