Anderson' and recounts that Sonya was his teacher and one of the few people who accepted him as he was. Malcolm cuts through Otto's disgruntlement at receipt of the newspapers when he recognizes Otto as 'Mr. Reuben, who suffered a stroke, is now confined to a wheelchair and is cared for by his wife Anita and neighbor Jimmy.Ī local transgender teen, Malcolm, recognizes Otto as Sonya's husband while delivering newspapers and circulars in the neighborhood. The two grew apart after Reuben's preference for Fords and Toyotas over Otto's Chevrolets and the 'coup' of replacing Otto as chairman. There, he tells her about his friendship with a man named Reuben, the two having worked together to establish rules and order, with Otto as chairman of the neighborhood association board. Otto takes Marisol for a driving lesson and they visit Sonya's favorite bakery, which the couple formerly frequented every weekend. Otto then takes in a stray cat, which he had previously considered to be an annoyance. Otto saves the man and the incident goes viral. During a suicide attempt by train, an old man faints and falls on the railroad tracks.

Otto has a flashback to his graduation with an engineering degree, when he asked Sonya to marry him. Marisol disrupts Otto’s suicide attempt, asking him to take her and the kids to the hospital after Tommy fell and broke his leg using a ladder that Otto had lent to him. He experiences a flashback to a dinner with Sonya, confessing to her that he is not enlisted in the army due to his heart condition and doesn’t have a job, prompting Sonya to kiss Otto. Otto attempts suicide again, this time via carbon monoxide poisoning. He meets Sonya on a train after returning a dropped book to her. Otto has flashbacks to his past years previously he tried to enlist in the army but was rejected due to his hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. After retiring from a steel company, he plans suicide, having lost his wife Sonya, a schoolteacher, six months previously.ĭuring a suicide attempt by hanging, he is interrupted by his new neighbors: Marisol, Tommy, and their two daughters, Abby and Luna. Otto Anderson, a 63-year-old widower, lives in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The film received generally favorable reviews from critics and has grossed $106 million worldwide on a $50 million budget. Ī Man Called Otto began a limited theatrical release on December 29, 2022, before a wide release in the United States on January 13, 2023. The film stars Tom Hanks in the title role, with Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo. It is the second film adaptation of the 2012 novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman after the 2015 Swedish film of the same name. A Man Called Otto is a 2022 comedy-drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Magee.

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