A Man Called Otto

[Anonymous]

What dump? They lived in a rowhome.

[Anonymous]

I liked the book better, it had more backstory and was lighter. I thought it worked better being in Sweden than in the USA. But it was ok.

[Anonymous]

I was surprised but I really liked it.

[Anonymous]

Hm, I loved it. So did my DH.

[Anonymous]

I liked the book. Watched the movie today, and I won't lie, I cried a couple times.

[Anonymous]

I really enjoyed it! Had me in tears a couple of times.

Makes me think of some sweet older neighbors, and how much those relationships me to me…and hopefully to them.

[Anonymous]

I liked it a lot but the book was better. Fredrik Backman's Beartown series is great. He is probably my favorite contemporary European author.

[Anonymous]

Loved it!

[Anonymous]

Why did they change the name from Ove to Otto?

[Anonymous]

Didn't like the book. Ove was a horse's ass to everyone his entire life. Miserly, crotchety, and an embarrassment to his wife. So much so that there is no explanation for a living breathing woman to put up with his nonsense, so she's already dead when the book starts.

Then he decides to be a halfway decent human to a small number of people for a short amount of time before he himself dies -- yet 300+ people come to the funeral and mourn him? No way.

[Anonymous]

Why did they change the name from Ove to Otto?

Because Ove is an unfamiliar name to American audiences. It's pronounced with a U sound not an O sound (I only know because I listened to the audio book) so the producers probably wanted something more common.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the kind of movie that is made for dumb audiences. Everything is obvious and over the top and it's full of tropes.

You the dumbest

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the kind of movie that is made for dumb audiences. Everything is obvious and over the top and it's full of tropes.

This is why I had to stop watching it. It was tired and overdone with all the bitter, miserly, grumpy man tropes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's the kind of movie that is made for dumb audiences. Everything is obvious and over the top and it's full of tropes.

This is why I had to stop watching it. It was tired and overdone with all the bitter, miserly, grumpy man tropes.

It wasn’t bad but I felt the same. Not one of TH’s best movies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The book was amazing. The movie just ok t Hanks wouldn't have been my first choice of casting.

He ruins most movies for me and yet for decades he was in everything.