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

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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.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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