![]() ![]() ![]() But the changes are so slight that it’s hard in many ways to tell the films apart. Starring: Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Rachel KellerĪ Man Called Otto is not quite a shot-for-shot remake of the popular Swedish film ‘A Man Called Ove,’ itself adapted from a best-selling book. But it contains enough truth to make the movie a hit among grownups looking back on their own lives with a mixture of happy nostalgia and wistful regret. Its appeal to common decency and neighborliness and the ties that bind may be a white lie writ large. Yet it’s sincere enough, and so committed to its corny messaging, that it ends up charming anyway. ![]() A Man Called Otto is weepy, over-sentimental glop, about as realistic as a greeting card, in the same tradition as books like Tuesdays With Morrie. In A Man Called Otto, the title character Otto Anderson, played by Tom Hanks at his most universally appealing, is a stoic, hard-working man, willing to sacrifice his own happiness for the common good. ![]()
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