Super-grumpy Tom Hanks cannot save the predictable sentimentality of A Man Called Otto
There is one moment early in Marc Forster’s remake of the hit Swedish filmWhile minding the young children of a neighbour who had to be rushed to hospital, ornery widower Otto has a face-off against a ward clown, there to entertain and distract the kiddos. But when the clown asks to borrow Otto’s cherished lucky coin to perform a magic trick, we know that trouble is brewing.
That is until a new Mexican family moves in across the street, its clan led by a cheerily pregnant mother whose requests for myriad acts of domestic assistance continually interrupt Otto’s many suicide attempts. I don’t think I need to elaborate on whether or not these new relationships will somehow course-correct Otto’s self-destructive plans.
Marisol's requests for myriad acts of domestic assistance continually interrupt Otto’s many suicide attempts.Not so much Hanks’s youngest son, Truman Hanks, who takes on his first big on-screen role here playing the younger version of Otto. Truman is no Tom in terms of charm and presence – not even close to his older brother, Colin – but the lad isn’t helped either by Forster’s flashback sequences, which are bathed in an oh-jeez dewy glow and soundtracked by the most saccharine of songs.
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