'A Man Called Otto' features a cranky — but hurting — old man, just like Dad

Screenwriter David Magee saw the heartache behind the widower in the story, and his need to find something to live for.

I saw the 2015 Swedish film adaptation of Fredrik Backman’s incredibly funny, heartbreaking novel “A Man Called Ove” the year it came out — before I had read the book, and long before I had any idea I would write an American film adaptation of the story.

In Ove, Backman has created a character who at times can be contentious, obstinate and even downright rude — the sort of man whose outrageous reactions to everyday situations become the subject of comic anecdotes that are retold countless times by enemies and friends alike. Mariana Trevino stars as Marisol, who refuses to let Tom Hanks’ crotchety Otto shut her out in “A Man Called Otto.”

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