“Please don’t ruin my childhood,†Susan Kelechi Watson begs Matthew Rhys in the new trailer for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a movie about the incomparable Mr. Fred Rogers, played by Tom Hanks. The film follows cynical journalist Rhys as he profiles the television legend. With icons of the past dropping from role-model status to criminal status at an alarming rate, and with the internet’s way of reducing everything we love to an inescapable meme, the plea couldn’t be more real. But the movie really intends to save your adulthood. In the trailer, we get Rhys opening up about his feelings and gazing down at an infant. Yes, the bar is low, but we are limbo-ing under it, baby! We’ll all be relearning lessons in emotional intelligence from Mr. Rogers when A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is out this Thanksgiving.
