Man Called Otto, A

[Opens Jan. 13 in theaters.] After the death of his beloved wife (Rachel Keller) in Marc Forster's poignant, engaging, well-acted, heartwarming, wit-dotted, 126-minute remake of the Swedish film A Man Called Ove based on Fredrik Backman's 2012 bestselling novel in which a curmudgeonly, rules-driven, retired, depressed widower (Tom Hanks) comes out of his comfort zone and eventually discovers a renewed joy of life amidst several botched suicide attempts when he ends up being surrounded by persistent, kindhearted people who care about him, including his new free-spirited, tenacious, quick-witted, pregnant neighbor (Mariana TreviƱo), who has a husband (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo) and two daughters; the bike-riding student (Mack Bayda) of his late wife; and his longtime African-American neighbor and friend (Juanita Jennings) and her disabled, car-loving husband (Peter Lawson Jones).
|
|
|