A Man Known As Otto With The Aid of David Magee

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A Man Called Otto is a 2022 comedy-drama movie directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay with the aid of David Magee. It is the second one movie adaptation of the 2012 novel A Man Called Ove by way of Fredrik Backman, and an American remake of the 2015 Swedish movie of the same name written and directed with the aid of Hannes Holm. The movie stars Tom Hanks in the identify function, with Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo.[4][five][6]

A Man Called Otto began a limited theatrical launch on December 30, 2022, before a wide launch within the United States on January thirteen, 2023. The movie obtained mixed reviews from critics and has grossed $56 million global.Plot[edit]

Otto Anderson, a 63-12 months-vintage widower, lives in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.After retiring from a metal corporation, he plans suicide, having misplaced his spouse Sonya, a schoolteacher, six months previously.

During a suicide attempt by putting, he's interrupted by his new associates: Marisol, Tommy, and their two daughters, Abby and Luna. Otto has flashbacks to his past; years previously he attempted to enlist in the military however turned into not able because of having hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He meets Sonya on a teach after returning a dropped e-book to her.

Otto tries suicide once more, this time via carbon monoxide poisoning. He stories a flashback of him having dinner with Sonya, confessing to her that he isn't enlisted within the military due to his heart circumstance and doesn’t have a task, making Sonya kiss Otto. Marisol disrupts Otto’s suicide attempt, asking him to take her and the kids to the clinic after Tommy fell and broke his leg the usage of a ladder that Otto lent to him. He reluctantly is of the same opinion.

Otto has a flashback to his graduation with an engineering degree, while he requested Sonya to marry him. During a suicide attempt with the aid of educate, an old guy faints and falls at the railroad tracks. Otto saves the man and the incident becomes a viral video. Otto then takes in a stray cat, which he had discovered to be an annoyance. Otto takes Marisol for a riding lesson and that they go to Sonya's favourite bakery, which the couple previously frequented every weekend. There, he tells her approximately his friendship with a guy named Reuben, the two having worked collectively to set up guidelines and order, with Otto as chairman of the neighborhood association board. The grew aside after Reuben's preference for Fords and Toyotas over Otto's Chevrolets and the "coup" of changing Otto as chairman. Reuben, who suffered a stroke, is now constrained to a wheelchair and is cared for through his wife Anita and neighbor Jimmy.

A neighborhood transgender teenager, Malcolm, acknowledges Otto as Sonya's husband at the same time as delivering newspapers and circulars within the neighborhood. Malcolm cuts via Otto's disgruntlement at receipt of the newspapers when he acknowledges Otto as "Mr Anderson" and recounts that Sonya turned into his teacher and one of the few folks that standard him as he was. A friendship forms among the pair and Otto fixes Malcolm's bicycle. After dodging a social media journalist who is making an attempt to interview Otto on the subject of the earlier viral video, he gets angry at both Marisol and a Dye & Merika actual property agent, not trying to come to terms with Sonya’s demise. He attempts to dedicate suicide via shotgun, but is interrupted via Malcolm, who asks to spend the night time after his father kicked him out.

Otto learns that Dye & Merika is planning to force Reuben right into a nursing home and take their residence, after illegally locating out that Anita changed into identified with Parkinson's disease. Otto consents to assist Anita and Reuben. Marisol refuses to assist Otto till he tells her that he and Sonya went to Niagara Falls to celebrate having their first pregnancy. On their manner again domestic, the bus they have been on crashed due to defective brakes, resulting in Sonya being paralyzed and having a miscarriage. The neighborhood became no longer reachable to Sonya and Otto was voted out of the chairmanship after having a heated confrontation with a Dye & Merika representative. Otto wanted to position all of the real property businesses out of business but decided in opposition to it to care for Sonya. With the help of the community and the social media journalist, Reuben and Anita are capable of keep their domestic.

Otto collapses and is taken to the sanatorium, where he lists Marisol as his next of kinfolk. After being advised with the aid of a cardiologist that Otto’s heart is too big, she laughs, before going into labor, giving delivery to a son. Otto gives his vintage automobile to Malcolm and takes Marisol and her children for a drive in a new truck. Years skip and Otto turns into excellent buddies with Marisol and her own family.

One day, Tommy notices that Otto didn’t shovel the snow on his walkway. Marisol and Tommy input Otto's house to discover him dead, having succumbed to his enlarged heart. A funeral is held, attended by his associates. In a letter to Marisol, Otto says that his lawyer will give her his financial institution money owed, supplying them with enough money to attend to her circle of relatives, as well as giving his new truck and his house to her.Cast[edit]

• Tom Hanks as Otto Anderson
  • Truman Hanks as younger Otto Anderson
• Mariana Treviño as Marisol
• Rachel Keller as Sonya
• Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Tommy
• Cameron Britton as Jimmy
• Mack Bayda as Malcolm
• Juanita Jennings as Anita
  • Emonie Ellison as young Anita
• Peter Lawson Jones as Reuben
  • Laval Schley as young Reuben
• Christiana Montoya as Luna
• Alessandra Perez as Abby
• Mike Birbiglia as Real Estate Agent
• David Magee as Dye & Merika Rep '83
• John Higgins as Hardware Store Clerk

Production[edit]

In September 2017, it changed into introduced that Tom Hanks would superstar in an English-language model of the 2015 movie A Man Called Ove, and might also produce alongside Playtone companion Gary Goetzman, Rita Wilson, and Fredrik Wikström Nicastro of SF Studios.[7] Marc Forster was confirmed as the film's director in January 2022, with David Magee writing the screenplay.[eight] On February 10, 2022, it turned into announced that Sony Pictures pre-bought the rights to the film for around US$60 million on the European Film Market.[nine]Filming[edit]

Filming started out in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in February 2022.[1][10] It wrapped in May 2022.[11][12]Soundtrack[edit]

Thomas Newman composed the movie's score. The soundtrack album changed into launched via Decca Records on December 30, 2022.[thirteen][14] The album also functions the single "Til You're Home" via Rita Wilson and Sebastián Yatra, which became released on December 2, 2022,[13] and has been shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.[15]Release[edit]

The movie started out limited theatrical launch in New York and Los Angeles on December 30, 2022, before a wide launch in the United States on January 13, 2023, by means of Sony Pictures Releasing.[sixteen][17] It changed into in the beginning set for a huge launch on December 25, 2022,[18][19] then moved as much as December 14, 2022, earlier than moving to its modern-day date.[20]Reception[edit]Box office[edit]

As of January 23, 2023, A Man Called Otto has grossed $36 million inside the United States and Canada, and $20 million in other territories, for a global overall of $56 million.[2][three]

A Man Called Otto grossed $60,000 at 4 Los Angeles and New York theaters on its commencing 3-day weekend.[21] It multiplied to 637 theaters the following weekend, making $4.2 million and finishing in fourth.[22] In its 1/3 weekend the film made $12.7 million after expanding to three,802 theaters, surpassing its $8 million projections and remaining in fourth.[23]Critical reaction[edit]