Tom Hanks as Mister Rogers in an upcoming movie. (Photo: LACEY TERRELL)
The warm, safe, cozy feeling you had watching Mister Rogers as a child is in every bit of the “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” trailer released Monday.
Tom Hanks stars as Fred Rogers, our favorite sweater-wearing neighbor. Hanks looks the lanky, clean-cut gentleman that Rogers was, naturally, but it’s everything from his soft voice to the narration that helps us step back in time.
The movie is based on a true story of a friendship that flourished between Rogers and journalist Tom Junod.
In the trailer, the reporter is Lloyd Vogel (played by Matthew Rhys). A clip shows Vogel sharing with his wife that he isinterviewing Rogers and she tells him pointedly, “Lloyd, please don’t ruin my childhood.”
Through scenes we learn that Rogers manages to turn the tables on the cynical reporter about what’s really important in life.
“Sometimes we have to ask for help and that’s OK,” Mr. Rogers says in narration. “I think the best thing we can do is to let people know that each one of them is precious.”
As for the PBS “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” he tells the reporter all the puppets and characters that he introduces are only really trying to do one thing: “We are trying to give the world positive ways of dealing with their feelings.”
At the end of the trailer, children spot Mr. Rogers on a bus and they spontaneously break into the classic song “Won’t You Be My Neighbor.”
You don’t get a little misty-eyed? Well, you’re made of stone.
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