He experiences a flashback of having dinner with Sonya. Otto attempts suicide again, this time via carbon monoxide poisoning. He later goes and gets the flowers and visits Sonya’s grave and tells her about the new neighbors. As he falls to the floor, he spots a flower bouquet advertisement in the newspaper he’d placed on the floor. Again, he attempts to hang himself, but the noose fastening falls from the ceiling. They bring him some Mexican food and ask to borrow an Allen wrench. During the attempt, he is interrupted by his new renting neighbors: Marisol, Tommy, and their two daughters, Abby and Luna. He meets Sonya on a train after returning a book she dropped. Years previously, he tried to enlist in the army but was rejected due to his hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He prepares for suicide after retiring from his job at a steel company.ĭuring a suicide attempt by hanging, Otto has flashbacks to his past. Six months after losing his wife Sonya, a former schoolteacher, Otto has become a cynical curmudgeon. Otto Anderson, a 63-year-old widower, lives in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The film received generally favorable reviews from critics and has grossed $109 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 American comedy-drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Magee.
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