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    A Man Called Otto is a 2022 American comedy-drama film directed by Marc Forster and starring Tom Hanks. It is a remake of the 2015 Swedish film A Man Called Ove. The film follows Otto, a bitter 63-year-old widower living in Pittsburgh who has become suicidal after the death of his wife six months prior. Otto's plans for suicide are continually interrupted by his new neighbors, a pregnant woman named Marisol and her family, who try to befriend him. Over time, Otto reluctantly gets involved in helping his neighbors and begins to open up about his past with his late wife, slowly becoming less bitter and more engaged with his community.

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    A Man Called Otto is a 2022 American comedy-drama film directed by Marc Forster and starring Tom Hanks. It is a remake of the 2015 Swedish film A Man Called Ove. The film follows Otto, a bitter 63-year-old widower living in Pittsburgh who has become suicidal after the death of his wife six months prior. Otto's plans for suicide are continually interrupted by his new neighbors, a pregnant woman named Marisol and her family, who try to befriend him. Over time, Otto reluctantly gets involved in helping his neighbors and begins to open up about his past with his late wife, slowly becoming less bitter and more engaged with his community.

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    A Man Called Otto

    Theatrical release poster

    Directed by Marc Forster

    Screenplay by David Magee

     A Man Called Ove (novel)


    Based on
    by Fredrik Backman

     A Man Called Ove (film)

    by Hannes Holm

    Produced by  Fredrik Wikström Nicastro

     Rita Wilson

     Tom Hanks

     Gary Goetzman

    Starring  Tom Hanks

     Mariana Treviño

     Rachel Keller

     Manuel Garcia-Rulfo

     Truman Hanks

     Mike Birbiglia

    Cinematography Matthias Königswieser

    Edited by Matt Chessé

    Music by Thomas Newman

    Production  Columbia Pictures


    companies
     Stage 6 Films

     SF Studios

     TSG Entertainment II

     Artistic Films

     Playtone

     2Dux²

     STXfilms

     Big Indie Pictures


    Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing

    Release date  December 29, 2022

    Running time 126 minutes

    Country United States

    Language English

    Budget $50 million

    Box office $113.2 million[1]

    A Man Called Otto is a 2022 American comedy-drama film directed by Marc Forster from a
    screenplay by David Magee. It is a remake of the 2015 Swedish film A Man Called Ove, which
    was based on the 2012 novel of the same name by Fredrik Backman. The film stars Tom
    Hanks in the title role, with Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo in
    supporting roles. The plot follows a bitter old man who reluctantly gets involved in the lives of his
    neighbours.
    A Man Called Otto began a limited theatrical release on December 29, 2022, before a wide
    release in the United States on January 13, 2023, by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film received
    generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $113 million worldwide against a $50 million
    production budget.
    Otto Anderson is a 63-year-old widower, living in a rowhouse in suburban Pittsburgh. Six months
    after losing his wife Sonya, a schoolteacher, Otto has become a cynical, fastidious curmudgeon.
    Pushed into retirement from his job at a steel plant, he cancels his utilities and plans to kill himself
    to join his late wife.
    Preparing to hang himself, Otto is interrupted by the arrival of new neighbors: pregnant Marisol,
    her husband Tommy, and their daughters Abby and Luna, who try to befriend him. When he
    attempts suicide, the noose collapses from the ceiling, so he visits Sonya's grave, and
    has flashbacks to their past: as a young man, he was rejected from the army due to
    his hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and met Sonya on a train, where she lent him a 1964 silver
    quarter he has kept ever since.
    Otto helps his neighbor Anita with her radiators, despite holding a grudge against her husband
    Reuben, a non-responsive stroke survivor. Otto attempts suicide again via carbon monoxide
    poisoning in his garage, thinking back on his and Sonya's courtship, but he is interrupted by
    Marisol when Tommy breaks his leg after borrowing Otto's ladder. Otto reluctantly drives Marisol
    and the children to the hospital, where he assaults a clown for taking his special quarter during a
    magic trick.
    While waiting on a train platform for another suicide attempt, Otto remembers his graduation from
    engineering school, when he asked Sonya to marry him. He saves an older man who fell onto the
    tracks and lets himself be pulled to safety at the last second. When his allergic neighbor Jimmy
    rescues a stray cat, Otto reluctantly adopts it. He confronts a teenager named Malcolm for
    delivering unwanted advertising circulars, and the boy recognizes Otto as his former teacher's
    husband, recounting that Sonya supported him as a transgender student.
    Annoyed by Marisol's inability to drive, Otto gives her lessons. They visit Sonya's favorite bakery,
    where Otto explains that Anita and Sonya were best friends, but he and Reuben grew apart over
    rivalries and trivialities such as loyalties to different car manufacturers, culminating in Reuben's
    "coup" replacing Otto as chair of the neighborhood association. Otto babysits Abby and Luna
    while Marisol and Tommy spend a night out together, and befriends Malcolm, helping to fix his
    bicycle.
    Otto dodges social media journalist Sharie Kenzie after a video of the incident at the train station
    goes viral. Unwilling to come to terms with Sonya's death, Otto lashes out at Marisol and an
    agent for Dye & Merika, a real estate company trying to buy up the neighborhood. He prepares to
    commit suicide by shotgun, remembering the bus crash on a romantic trip to Niagara Falls that
    caused a pregnant Sonya to lose her baby and become a paraplegic. Malcolm, who was kicked
    out by his father, knocks on the door, and Otto lets him stay the night.
    Otto learns that Dye & Merika are conspiring with the estranged son of Reuben and Anita. They
    are leveraging Anita's secret Parkinson's diagnosis to buy their house and put Reuben in their
    nursing home. He resolves to fight them and asks for Marisol's help, finally explaining Sonya's
    stillbirth and disability, his frustration at the inaccessibility of the Dye & Merika housing
    development, and how he was voted out as association chair after a heated confrontation with the
    company. When Dye & Merika staff arrive to take Reuben, the neighbors band together to stop
    them, with Kenzie exposing their illegal access to Anita and Otto's medical records.
    Otto collapses and he is taken to the hospital, identifying Marisol as his next of kin. She is
    amused to learn "his heart is too big", then goes into labor and gives birth to a son, Marco. Otto
    gives Marisol and Tommy the cradle he built when Sonya was pregnant, gives his car to Malcolm,
    and grows closer to his neighbors.
    Three years later, following a snowfall, Tommy notices Otto has not shoveled his walkway as he
    normally would. He and Marisol enter his house and find that Otto has died of heart failure. They
    also find a letter to Marisol bequeathing his home, savings, new truck, and cat. Following his
    wishes for a funeral, the neighbors gather to remember Otto.

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