A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

About A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) is a history film directed by Marielle Heller. The film is filed under male friendship, investigative journalism, semi-biographical, and estranged father.

Matthew Rhys takes the lead as Lloyd Vogel, Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers, Chris Cooper as Jerry Vogel, and Susan Kelechi Watson as Andrea Vogel. It runs 109 minutes and was released in September 2019.

The screenplay is by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster. Produced by Big Beach. The film began as real events. In the United States it streams on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads, and Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel.

Radio, The Intouchables, and The Bucket List make useful companions to A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, all filed under friendship and kindness. TMDB voters put it at 7.0 out of 10 across 1,810 votes and it carries a PG rating.