#1401 A Man Called Otto
Verfasst: 2023-01-10 0:59
First of all, a clarification: as I mentioned at the Sneak, my first Tom Hanks film was indeed "Dragnet" (1987), I also saw "Splash" (1984), but not until 1989 after I had already seen "Big" (1988).
"A Man Called Otto" was first released in 2012 as a novel by Swedish blogger-turned-author Fredrik Backmann under the title "En man som heter Ove". This was also the name of a swedish-language movie adaptation by Hannes Holm in 2015. Screenwriter David Magee ("Life of Pi") changed the location and the nationalities of the main charactera, but left the story of the film and book pretty much intact for this english-language adaptation:
How did you like the film, which gave Hanks an at least partially surprising role as the cantankerous widower? then again, the revelations about Otto's past more fit Hanks' usual profile (in flashbacks, Otto was played by Hanks' son Trevor, who does not look much like him)... How did you like the story, and the often dry jokes? Please let us know in a reply to this posting.
