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"A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" starring Tom Hanks premieres November 2019

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Let's try replicating Leif Garrett's California accent by sounding like cowboy from Texas.

"I wuz mayd fer dancin', y'all! Yee-haw!"
 

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Sooo . . . I got a little more emotional than I thought I would seeing this movie.
 

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it was a really good movie!!! very emotional, 10/10, for a biopic this was something NEW! something refreshing! something original! go see it.
 

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it was a really good movie!!! very emotional, 10/10, for a biopic this was something NEW! something refreshing! something original! go see it.
I concur! It was fantastic! I got emotional during parts of the movie. Tom Hanks was perfect! We really need Mr Rogers in our world now more than ever.
 

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I wasn't super into it. Tom Hanks was fine, but I wish there was more of him. I honestly wasn't invested in the writer guy's plot that much - adult dude estranged from his father; haven't heard that before...
 

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That much I will agree with - it felt more like the Mister Rogers aspect of the movie was something of a subplot to the arc of the writer who was interviewing him . . . but then again, I think that was actually supposed to be the point of the movie.
 

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I will say that in the movie itself, Tom Hanks was actually a little better as Mister Rogers than he seemed in the trailers, which came off more as a Forrest Gump-esque kind of performance, with the slight southern drawl and all.
 

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It was an awesome movie.

I expected it to be a full autobiography on Mr. Rogers', as opposed to being based more on an article that came out in 1998.

I really like the scenes that simulate parts of the show (the beginning, the sequence leading to a film about making magazines, the ending). I wish they'd done a little more of those (or had the visit from Mr. McFeely come a little later).
 
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