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A Man Called Otto

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Directed byMarc Forster
Screenplay byDavid Magee
Based on
  • A Man Called Ove (novel)
    by Fredrik Backman
  • A Man Called Ove (film)
    by Hannes Holm
Produced by
  • Fredrik Wikström Nicastro
  • Rita Wilson
  • Tom Hanks
  • Gary Goetzman
Starring
  • Tom Hanks
  • Mariana Treviño
  • Rachel Keller
  • Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
  • Truman Hanks
  • Mike Birbiglia
CinematographyMatthias Königswieser
Edited byMatt Chessé
Music byThomas Newman

Production
companies

  • Columbia Pictures
  • Stage 6 Films
  • SF Studios
  • Artistic Films
  • Playtone
  • 2DUX²
  • STXfilms
  • Big Indie
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing

Release date

  • December 29, 2022

Running time

126 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$50 million
Box office$113.1 million[1]

A Man Called Otto is a 2022 American comedy-drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Magee, about a bitter old man reluctantly getting involved in the lives of his neighbors. It stars Tom Hanks in the title role, with Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo in supporting roles. It is a remake of the năm ngoái Swedish film A Man Called Ove, which was based on the 2012 novel by Fredrik Backman.

A Man Called Otto began a limited theatrical release on December 29, 2022, before a wide release in the United States on January 13, 2023. The film received generally favorable reviews from critics and grossed $113.1 million worldwide on a $50 million budget.

Plot[edit]

Otto Anderson is a 63-year-old widower, living in a rowhouse in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Six months after losing his wife Sonya, a schoolteacher, Otto has become a cynical, fastidious curmudgeon. Pushed into retirement from his job at a steel plant, he cancels his utilities and plans lớn kill himself, lớn join his late wife.

Preparing lớn huyệt himself, Otto is interrupted by the arrival of new neighbors: pregnant Marisol, her husband Tommy, and their daughters Abby and Luna, who try lớn befriend him. When he attempts suicide, the noose collapses from the ceiling, sánh he visits Sonya's grave, and has flashbacks lớn their past: As a young man, he was rejected from the army due lớn his hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and met Sonya on a train, where she lent him a 1964 silver quarter he has kept ever since.

Otto helps his neighbor Anita with her radiators, despite holding a grudge against her husband Reuben, a non-responsive stroke survivor. Otto attempts suicide again via carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage, thinking back on his and Sonya's courtship, but is interrupted by Marisol when Tommy breaks his leg after borrowing Otto's ladder. Otto reluctantly drives Marisol and the children lớn the hospital, where he assaults a clown for taking his quarter during a magic trick.

While waiting on a train platform for another suicide attempt, Otto remembers his graduation from engineering school, when he asked Sonya lớn marry him. He saves an older man who falls onto the tracks, and lets himself be pulled lớn safety at the last second. When his neighbor Jimmy rescues a stray mèo but turns out lớn be allergic, Otto reluctantly adopts it. He confronts a teenager named Malcolm for delivering unwanted advertising circulars, and the boy recognizes Otto as his former teacher's husband, recounting that Sonya supported him as a transgender student.

Annoyed by Marisol's inability lớn drive, Otto gives her lessons. They visit Sonya's favorite bakery, where Otto explains that Anita and Sonya were best friends, but he and Reuben grew apart over trivialities such as loyalties lớn different xế hộp manufacturers, culminating in Reuben's "coup" replacing Otto as chair of the neighborhood association. Otto babysits Abby and Luna while Marisol and Tommy spend a night out together, and befriends Malcolm, helping fix his bicycle.

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Otto dodges social truyền thông journalist Sharie Kenzie after video clip of the incident at the train station goes viral. Unwilling lớn come lớn terms with Sonya's death, Otto lashes out at Marisol and an agent for Dye & Merika, a real estate company trying lớn take over the neighborhood. He prepares lớn commit suicide by shotgun, remembering the bus crash on a romantic trip lớn Niagara Falls that caused a pregnant Sonya lớn lose her baby and become a paraplegic. Interrupted again, by Malcolm this time, Otto lets him spend the night after being kicked out by his father.

Otto learns that Dye & Merika are conspiring with Reuben and Anita's estranged son, leveraging Anita's secret Parkinson's diagnosis lớn buy their house and put Reuben in their nursing trang chủ. He resolves lớn fight them and asks for Marisol's help, finally explaining Sonya's stillbirth and disability, his frustration at the inaccessibility of the Dye & Merika housing development, and how he was voted out as association chair after a heated confrontation with the company. When Dye & Merika staff arrive lớn take Reuben, the neighbors band together lớn stop them, with Kenzie exposing their illegal access of Anita and Otto's medical records.

Otto collapses and is taken lớn the hospital, identifying Marisol as his next of kin. She is amused lớn learn "his heart is too big", then goes into labor and gives birth lớn a son, Marco. Otto gives Marisol and Tommy the crib he built when Sonya was pregnant, gifts his xế hộp lớn Malcolm, and grows closer with his neighbors. Three years later, Tommy notices Otto has not shoveled his walkway, and he and Marisol find that he has died of heart failure, and left a letter lớn Marisol bequeathing his trang chủ, savings, new truck, and mèo. Following his wishes for a funeral, the neighbors gather lớn remember Otto.

Cast[edit]

In addition, Christiana Montoya and Alessandra Perez appear as Luna and Abbie, respectively.

Production[edit]

In September 2017, it was announced that Tom Hanks would star in an English-language adaptation of the năm ngoái Swedish film, A Man Called Ove, and would also produce alongside Playtone partner Gary Goetzman, wife Rita Wilson, and Fredrik Wikström Nicastro of SF Studios.[2] Marc Forster was confirmed as the film's director in January 2022, with David Magee writing the screenplay.[3] On February 10, 2022, it was announced that Sony Pictures pre-bought the rights lớn the film for around US$60 million at the European Film Market.[4]

Filming[edit]

Filming began in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in February 2022.[5][6] It wrapped in May 2022.[7][8]

Soundtrack[edit]

Thomas Newman composed the film's score. The soundtrack album was released by Decca Records on December 30, 2022.[9][10] The album also features the single "Til You're Home" by Rita Wilson and Sebastián Yatra, which was released on December 2, 2022,[9] and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.[11]

Release[edit]

The film began limited theatrical release in Thủ đô New York City and Los Angeles on December 29, 2022, before a wide release in the United States on January 13, 2023, by Sony Pictures Releasing.[1][12] It was originally mix for a wide release on December 25, 2022,[13][14] then moved up lớn December 14, 2022, before moving lớn its current date.[15]

Home media[edit]

The film was released through video clip on demand on February 28, 2023. It was released on Blu-ray and DVD on March 14, 2023. [16][17] The film was released on Netflix in the United States on May 6, 2023.[18] Disney signed a "pay two window" giảm giá with Sony in April 2021 which also included A Man Called Otto.[19]

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Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

A Man Called Otto grossed $64.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $48.8 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $113.1 million,[1] against a budget of $50 million.[5]

A Man Called Otto grossed $60,000 at four Los Angeles and Thủ đô New York theaters on its opening three-day weekend.[20] It expanded lớn 637 theaters the following weekend, making $4.2 million and finishing in fourth.[21] In its third weekend the film made $12.7 million after expanding lớn 3,802 theaters, surpassing its $8 million projections and remaining in fourth.[22]

Critical response[edit]

On the review aggregator trang web Rotten Tomatoes, 69% of 204 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.1/10. The website's consensus reads: "Check all cynicism at the door and allow A Man Called Otto lớn tug at your heartstrings with its tried-and-true tune — it just might sing."[23] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 51 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[24]

References[edit]

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