'A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood': Can You Say 'Sincere' And 'Heartening?'
Marielle Heller's new film isn't Fred Rogers' story — it's the story of two damaged outsiders (Tom Hanks and Matthew Rhys) finding a connection that overcomes the darkness in their childhoods.
On the face of it, director Marielle Heller's exhilaratingly impolite indie resume doesn't make her an intuitive fit for a movie about the nicest man in the world — let alone a big studio picture starring nice Tom Hanks.
Heller's 2015 feature debut, , was voiced by a sorry-not-sorry young woman who initiates an affair with her mother's boyfriend. In her second, last year's , Heller cast the beloved Melissa McCarthy as the robustly unlikable real-life literary forger Lee Israel. Next to Mister
