PG-13 | 2h 6min | Drama, Comedy, Mystery, Romance | 30 December 2022 (USA)
This past calendar year, professionally speaking, has not worked out well for Tom Hanks. He appeared in three films (“Elvis,” “Pinocchio,” and now “A Man Called Otto”) and none of them come close to matching his glory days of the 1990s or early 2000s (or even his post “Bosom Buddies” 1980s upstart phase).
His uncharacteristically widely off-the-mark rendition of Col. Tom Parker in “Elvis” was (in the opinion of many, myself included) the biggest reason of preventing that film from achieving greatness. The disaster that was “Pinocchio,” equally despised by critics and audiences, marked a career low for Hanks….