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    Review: Tom Hanks becomes Mister Rogers in the stealthily moving 'A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood'

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Nov 21, 2019 5 minutes

    "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" is the most beguiling thing, a movie that feels entirely truthful even within its own Neighborhood of Make-Believe.

    Loosely based on actual events, it follows the relationship between an ill-tempered magazine writer and the nicest man in America: Fred Rogers, or Mr. Rogers, as he is known to the millions of children who have embraced his long-running program. Directed with a gossamer-light touch by Marielle Heller, the picture occupies that eerie zone where drabness meets eccentricity, truth blurs into fiction and a beloved TV personality can merge, almost seamlessly, with a beloved film actor.

    That actor would be Tom Hanks, who quickly lays your doubts to rest in the movie's daring, disarming prologue. With a song on his lips, Hanks' Mr. Rogers walks into

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