This film is beautiful because of how Mr Rogers holds unconditional positive regard towards everyone. His serenity and compassion are infectious. A beautiful message is hidden deep inside. Neighborhood is like having a conversation with an old friend. Nothing really amazing or unexpected happens, but it's a pleasant experience that makes you feel warm inside. While Tom Hanks never quite disappears into the role of Fred Rogers, he emulates the spirit of Mr. Rogers and that seems to be just as effective. In fact, if more people emulated Mr. Rogers, this world would be a better place.

A wholesome movie that felt like it was missing something. It's fine but after seeing the documentary last year this wasn't as emotional. Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers is perfect casting. I wish we got more of him.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is a powerful and moving film about friendship and forgiveness. Based on a true story, investigative journalist Lloyd Vogel interviews children’s television entertainer Fred Rogers for an article, but it soon turns into something more as Rogers takes a personal interest in Vogel and his family. Both Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys give great performances; particularly Hanks, who really captures the spirit and personality of Rogers. Additionally, director Marielle Heller does a brilliant job at homaging the look and feel of the Mr. Rogers Neighborhood show by integrating faux segments of the show as part of the film’s narrative. Incredibly creative and inspiring, A Beautiful Day in the Neighbor is a touching film with a positive message.

>"I hope you know that you made today a very special day by just your being you. There's no one in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are."

Having watched **Won't You Be My Neighbor?**, I was excited to watch this movie and see more of what had made me tear up the year before. To my surprise, it was not really the same thing and for that reason I enjoyed the movie even more. It is about forgiveness, compassion and losing someone. These are all things I have been through and it hit home pretty hard. I definitely recommend!

Hanks manages to carry the story of Mister Rogers with the same level of sincerity that was unique to Rogers' charm and power. This is not an easy task, because without careful handling it is very likely to come across as drippingly fake and cold.

As someone less familiar with Rogers (non-American who grew up without him on TV), I was also unfamilar with the story on which this movie was based on. For a relevant outsider, the framing was actually very useful for getting into who Rogers was in a wider cultural context. The framing also meant that time spent with Rogers was cut down, and oppurtunities to see how Rogers interacted outside of the small interview pieces was only shown in a few places.

Fundamentally, the film wanted to show the impact that Rogers had on the microcosm of a single person, and it did achieve that well. A good companion to the documentary also released about Mister Rogers.

Any problems can be so much easier to solve if we could talk about it.

If there is something like a wholesome movie, then this is it. Being from Germany and not having any reference to the real Mr. Rogers I find it of surreal to have person being nice to basically everybody. But I guess that's one of the points of the movie and if everyone would just try to be more like that Mrs Rogers guy I think the world would be a nicer place.

Gone but not forgotten.. me, you and Bob Ross will hang when I get up there Fred

There’s no one in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.
- Fred Rogers

[spoiler] Gonna be honest, I really don’t care about Lloyd. They took one of the greatest humans to walk the planet and turned him into a dime store shrink. Hanks is so good in this that it was a crime not to have him in over half the movie. Some many storylines that could have been told. Such a major bummer. All my stars are for Mr. Hanks alone. [/spoiler]
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If you have a connection to or at least know who Fred Rogers is (was?) this will probably make much more sense than it did to me.
Nice acting but an incredibly dull story that takes you no where.

This is going to be a critically acclaimed movie and even though I got to high five Tom Hanks at the TIFF premier I’m going to say it was just okay. Early tugs on the heart strings for the opening and closing MrRoger’s scene but the rest of the story was predictable. Why not tell Fred Roger’s story? Why can’t it be a story about a good man who gave to his community and what that meant in his life? To his family and to,his coworkers? Why did it have to be about yet another disfunctional guy that hates his father? It was okay. I’m glad I went for free.

Great acting as expected but, plot left much to be desired

I have never seen anything of mister roger (I'm Dutch and we didn't have it on television as far as i can remember), but nonetheless i think this captures the vision that is betrayed by mister rogers. I thought it was an amazing film and it really made me feel, I even teared up a bit (happy tears) when [spoiler]he asked us to think (for a minute) about the people who loved us[/spoiler] it was so amazingly "simple" yet so accurate and deep. I could go on and on but I think the only thing I could really say is go watch the movie and enjoy. PS: The cast was casted brilliantly and Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys did an amazing job.

What a trojan horse of a movie! I really liked it, but it definitely wasn't what I was expecting. The surrealist elements were utilised well.

I liked the family story - but it wasn't my cup of tea with the way it was shot. Very slow too