![]() ![]() RELATED: Tom Hanks Plays Two Very Different Music Managers in ‘Elvis’ and ‘That Thing You Do!’ While visiting her grave, Otto states “nothing works when you're not at home," and for the gruff man who actually grumbles for people to get off his lawn, it’s clear he wants things to work exactly how he likes, and now, life can no longer be repaired in the way he needs it to be. But mostly, Otto is angry at the world because he no longer gets to live in it with his wife Sonya, who recently died. In addition to his frustrations with being asked to retire, Otto is constantly getting annoyed at the younger people he comes across on a daily basis, as well as the people who follow the arbitrary rules that he's placed on the neighborhood. But this version, from Christopher Robin and Finding Neverland director Marc Forster, handles the mixtures of comedy and drama in a peculiar and often bizarre way that both negates much of the emotional heft of the story, and sometimes leads to unintentional humor. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to those who read the Backman book, or saw 2015's Swedish film adaptation of this story. ![]()
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