{"id":171354,"date":"2022-12-29T07:28:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T07:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tom-hanks-and-a-cat-are-irresistible-deadline\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T07:28:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T07:28:11","slug":"tom-hanks-and-a-cat-are-irresistible-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/tom-hanks-and-a-cat-are-irresistible-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks and a Cat Are Irresistible \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tWhen you have an international best seller that was on the NYT <\/em>list for 42 weeks and then made into a multi-Oscar-nominated Swedish film that became the third-most successful in the history of that country Ingmar Bergman called home, you might wonder what the need was for an English-language American remake. The answer is a chance to give Tom Hanks a role he can run with and, more important, to bring a very human, often funny, character-driven story back to light in a time that needs it more than ever. <\/p>\n \n \tthe swedish movie, A Man Called Ove, <\/em>was a big hit in 2015, as was the book by Fredrik Backman, and it happened to contain a lead performance by Rolf Lassgard that soared. He played Ove, a cranky widower who, when he wasn’t insisting on everyone doing things feeling <\/em>way or the highway in his self-contained neighborhood, was figuring out ways to commit suicide in order to join his wife who had died of cancer. <\/p>\n