Won't You Be My Neighbor? Trailer #2: People Love the Mr. Rogers Movie

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

A second lagger has been release forWon’t You Be My Neighbor ? , the much buzzed - about documentary film about Fred Rogers and his beloved PBS TV seriesMister Rogers ' Neighborhood . Documentaries , peculiarly those released in the midst of the summer movie season , are n’t commonly prostrate to generating ballyhoo or getting multiple trailers , but most of them are n’t about one of American pop culture ’s most beloved icons either . It also help thatWon’t You Be My Neighbor?earned ravesat the Sundance Film Festival to begin with this year and has only continued to make waves at its subsequent stoppage along the picture festival electrical circuit .

Wo n’t You Be My Neighbor?is one of two upcoming films that focalize on the life and time of everyone ’s favored cardigan - loving neighbor , with the other being the Tom Hanks - take memoirYou Are My protagonist . Docudramas that cover the same issue as a celebrated documentary before them incline to make less of a splashing ( seeThe Walk , Snowden ) , but there may yet be room for both Mr. Rogers film to thrive . WhereasYou Are My Friendfocuses on Tom Junod ’s famous 1998 profile on Mr. Rogers ( written five years before his passing),Won’t You Be My Neighbor?looks at Fred ’s greater legacy through the lens of his landmark telecasting show .

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accord to Focus Features ' official synopsis , Won’t You Be My Neighbor?goes behind the scenes ofMister Rogers ' Neighborhoodto explore"the heart of a creative genius who inspire multiplication of children with compassion and limitless imaging . “The film was directed by Morgan Neville , who has been making documentary for over twenty years and antecedently won an Oscar for his 2013 film20 Feet from Stardom , which explores the lives of backup Isaac Bashevis Singer . For a fresh look at Neville ’s Mr. Rogers ' docudrama , observe the newfangled preview forWon’t You Be My Neighbor?in the space above .

The Modern trailer forWon’t You Be My Neighbor?further builds hype for the film by highlighting pull quotes from its many positive former review , as well as reactions from big names like director Judd Apatow . Among other things , critics are celebrating Neville ’s docudrama for championing many of the same values that Mr. Rogers himself stand for ( empathy , compassion , forgivingness ) and show how he was so effective in usingMister Rogers ' Neighborhoodto make blue , but clear , political statements . Naturally , the latest trailer focalise more on the praise around the film , depart it to the movie proper to dive into those social and political issues .

Since the pic will begin in a circumscribed discharge and vagabond out to more food market throughout June , Focus Features has set upan official sitewhere people can sign up and get a calendar reminder whenWon’t You Be My Neighbor?opens in their city . Obviously , the film will be playing in far less theaters than June ’s big sequels and tentpoles ( a laIncredibles 2,Jurassic public : Fallen Kingdom ) and thus wo n’t be anywhere near them on the boxwood office charts , either . All the same , it ’s in a good place to flourish as sideboard - programming when it hits the conniption and cover on through to the calendar month of summer forward .