A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is a 2019 American biographical drama movie, directed by Marielle Heller and written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster. The movie stars Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers with Matthew Rhys as Tom Junod. Other stars include Susan Kelechi Watson and Chris Cooper.

The movie is about depressed journalist Tom Junod accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile on Fred Rogers and Junod's views on life changed after his encounter with Mister Rogers.

Filming began in September 2018 in Pittsburgh. It was released on November 22, 2019 by TriStar Pictures. For his role as Mr. Rogers, Hanks was nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and BAFTA Award.

Cast

 Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers
 Matthew Rhys as Lloyd Vogel (based on Tom Junod), a journalist
 Chris Cooper as Jerry Vogel, Lloyd's father
 Susan Kelechi Watson as Andrea Vogel, Lloyd's wife
 Enrico Colantoni as Bill Isler, president and CEO of The Fred Rogers Company
 Maryann Plunkett as Joanne Rogers, Fred's wife
 Tammy Blanchard as Lorraine, Lloyd's sister
 Wendy Makkena as Dorothy, Jerry's girlfriend
 Christine Lahti as Ellen, Lloyd's editor
 Carmen Cusack as Margy, a producer of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
 Noah Harpster as Todd, Lorraine's husband
 Maddie Corman as Lady Aberlin, a character on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Related pages
 Won't You Be My Neighbor?

References

Other websites

 Can You Say...Hero?, Esquire Magazine, November 1998

Category:2010s biographical movies
Category:2019 drama movies
Category:American biographical movies
Category:American drama movies
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