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Tom Hanks is a hero in first ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ trailer

Tom Hanks as Mister Rogers and Matthew Rhys as Tom Junod in ***A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood*** (Photo: Lacey Terrell/Sony Pictures)

Two-Academy Award winner Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, Forrest Gump) portrays Mister Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and Sony Pictures/Tri-Star has released the first trailer for the the Marielle Heller-directed film.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood details the real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and Tom Junod (Emmy winner Matthew Rhys, The Americans) a journalist who is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers for an article about heroes at the height of his popularity and impact.

The is directed by Heller (last year’s Oscar-nominated Can You Ever Forgive Me?), written by Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster and inspired by the Tom Junod article “Can You Say…Hero?” It is produced by Youree Henley, Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf and Leah Holzer and co-stars Susan Kelechi Watson (TV’s This Is Us) and Academy Award winner Chris Cooper (Adaptation.).

Sony Pictures will release A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood this Thanksgiving, on November 22nd. Here is the first trailer.

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