Movie review: While not entirely believable, a grumpy tomhanks becomes AManCalledOtto
"A Man Called Otto" - ★ ★ ½ Sentimental tales about grumpy old men and American decline have, until recently, typically been the domain of Clint Eastwood.
Exasperation, whether directed at a crying ballplayer or a slobbering canine, has always been squarely in Hanks' wheelhouse. But despondency or even plain get-off-my-lawn orneriness are less obvious traits possessed by the actor sometimes called"America's Dad." Following Hanks' villainous turn as Col.
Pregnant neighbor Marisol keeps intruding on Otto's life in"A Man Called Otto." - Courtesy of Sony Pictures by signing up you agree to our terms of service "A Man Called Otto" is set in the prefab row-house development Otto has long lived in, where he tirelessly tisk-tisks any rule breakers, re-sorts misplaced recycling and berates drivers who violate the street's regulation against through-traffic.
It's sometimes too broadly drawn. Mike Birbiglia plays a predatory real estate agent from a company not-so-subtly called Dye & Merica. But"A Man Called Otto" is less after realism than it is a modern-day fable, with shades of Scrooge and the Grinch. As a tale of a solitary man, Hanks has made it a poignant work of family. Rita Wilson, his wife, is a producer and is heard singing a song in the film. The younger Otto is played in flashbacks by their son, Truman Hanks.
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