This risk-free, rigorously conventional adaptation of the Swedish bestseller and Oscar-nominated 2015 foreign-language film, 'A Man Called Otto,' follows the broad strokes of a glaringly obvious plot that can be seen from outer space.
is one of our best actors, a gentleman star in the classic tradition of Jimmy Stewart and Gary Cooper. It's affection for the 66-year-old legend that helps ease the sugar shock of"A Man Called Otto," a theaters-only crowdpleaser that merely wants to entertain.
Hanks plays Otto Anderson, a grumpy old man who's been depressed to the point of attempting suicide since the death of his beloved wife. Hanks has played the dark side before, most recently in a fat suit and prosthetics asJimmy, played by Cameron Britton, jogs by Otto, played by Tom Hanks, in Columbia Pictures' "A Man Called Otto."Oscar-nominated turn as children's TV host Mr.
"Idiot," is the word Otto, a retired engineer, throws around to insult everyone else living in his Pittsburgh neighborhood, especially those who don't recycle, don't know how to parallel park and don't get out of his way when he swan dives onto train tracks. The director is the German-born Marc Forster, who made the worst James Bond movie ever in 2008's"Quantum of Solace," but showed an admirable edge in such films as"Monster's Ball" and"World War Z." That sharpness is totally MIA in the Otto story.Tom Hanks is Otto Anderson in Columbia Pictures' "A Man Called Otto."
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