A Man Called Ove is a 2015 Swedish comedy-drama film written and directed by Hannes Holm and based on the 2012 novel of the same name by Fredrik Backman. It stars Rolf Lassgård in the title role.
","wikipedia_plot_html":"\nOve Lindahl, a 59-year-old widower, lives in a townhouse neighborhood where he was the chairman of the neighborhood association until Rune, his former friend, replaced him. Rune is now paralysed after having a stroke, and is being cared for by his wife, Anita. Ove is depressed, and has been ever since his wife, Sonja, a schoolteacher, died from cancer six months earlier. Having worked at the same company for 43 years, he is pushed into retiring. His attempts to hang himself are repeatedly interrupted by Iranian immigrant Parvaneh, her Swedish husband Patrick, and their two children, who are moving into the house across the street.
\n\nDuring one of these suicide attempts, Ove has a flashback to his childhood. His mother died when he was a child, leaving him alone with his quiet father, a mechanic at the train company. His father shared his knowledge of engines with Ove, who had a part-time job at the train yard. Having done particularly well at his exams, he reports his results to his father, who is so eager to spread the news that he fails to take proper care and is hit by a train and killed.
\n\nBack in the present, during another attempt to kill himself, this time by carbon monoxide poisoning, Ove is sitting in his running car and again recollects an experience he had the past, when he had just begun working at the train company. In that flashback, two men from the local council, whom Ove dubs \"the Whiteshirts,\" arrive at young Ove's home and declare that it should be demolished. Ove instead fixes the house. Then, one night, his neighbor's house catches fire: Ove comes to the rescue and saves two people, but sparks from the flames cause his own house to catch fire, and the Whiteshirts prevent that fire from being tackled because they had planned to demolish it anyway.
\n\nNow homeless as a result, and with nowhere else to go, Ove sleeps on a train at work; he wakes to find a young woman, Sonja, sitting across from him. He is smitten with her and returns to the same early train each morning hoping she’ll turn up again. After three weeks, she does, and they begin dating. She encourages him to return to school, and he earns a degree in engineering.
\n\nBack in the present again, Ove's attempt to kill himself is interrupted by Parvaneh, who bangs on his garage door, saying she needs a lift to the hospital because her husband has had an accident. Ove complies, and then takes care of Parvaneh and Patrick's two daughters, Sepideh and Nasanin, until he causes a scene and is made to sit outside. Later, Ove goes to the train station, planning to jump in front of a train. However, when he gets there, another man on the platform faints and falls onto the tracks, whereupon Ove jumps down and rescues him.
\n\nParvaneh asks Ove to teach her how to drive, and he eventually agrees. He also takes in a stray cat which he had previously found to be merely an annoyance. He tells Parvaneh about his past friendship with Rune, and how they had worked together to establish rules and order, with Ove as chairman of the neighborhood association board and Rune as the deputy chair. They had grown apart over the years because Rune preferred Volvo cars and Ove Saabs, and partly as a result, Rune had organized a \"coup\" and had replaced Ove as chairman. At this time, Ove also begins to bond with his new cat. He repairs a bike he confiscated from a neighborhood teen, Adrian, and returns it to Adrian, who works at a kebab shop with another youth called Mirsad. Ove notices Mirsad's eye makeup and wonders if he is \"one of those gays,\" but does not shun him.
\n\nDespite his improved relations with his neighbors, Ove has an altercation with two \"Whiteshirts\" who are attempting to force Rune to move into a nursing home. Ove then attempts suicide, intending to use a shotgun, but is again interrupted, this time by Adrian and Mirsad ringing his doorbell. Adrian tells Ove that Mirsad has been kicked out of his house after coming out as gay to his family, and needs a place to stay. Ove reluctantly invites Mirsad in.
\n\nLater, Ove tells Parvaneh about a time when Sonja was pregnant and had wanted to go on vacation before the baby arrived. She and Ove traveled on a tour bus to Spain, but on the journey home, the bus crashed. In the crash, Sonja suffered a miscarriage, and other injuries that forced her to become reliant on a wheelchair: this made her unable to take a job as a teacher. When the local authorities ignored Ove's pleas to build a wheelchair ramp, he went to the school at night and built one.
\n\nBack in the present again, Ove collapses, and is taken to the hospital, where he lists Parvaneh as his next of kin. Parvaneh is told that her \"father\" has an enlarged heart, but will survive. Laughing, she tells Ove he is terrible at dying, then goes into labor and gives birth to a boy. Ove then presents gifts to Parvaneh's daughters, who refer to him as grandpa.
\n\nSeveral months later, Parvaneh wakes to a winter storm and notices that the ever-punctual Ove has not cleared his pathway. She and Patrick run to Ove's house to find he has died with the cat lying beside him. Ove, now finally having found peace, has left strict instructions for a modest funeral, but the service is packed with neighbors. The film ends with Ove waking up in the afterlife, where he walks onto a train and finds Sonja there, waiting for him to join her.
\n\n","wikipedia_adaptation_html":""},"wikipedia_html":"A Man Called Otto is a 2022 American comedy-drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Magee, about a bitter old man reluctantly getting involved in the lives of his neighbors. It stars Tom Hanks in the title role, with Mariana Treviño, Rachel Keller, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo in supporting roles. It is a remake of the 2015 Swedish film A Man Called Ove, which was based on the 2012 novel by Fredrik Backman.
","wikipedia_plot_html":"\n\nOtto Anderson, a 63-year-old widower, lives in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Six months after losing his wife Sonya, a former schoolteacher, Otto has become a cynical, fastidious curmudgeon. After being pushed into retirement from his job at a steel company, he cancels his utilities and plans to kill himself, to join his late wife.
\n\nDuring an attempt to hang himself, Otto is interrupted by his new renting neighbors: Marisol, Tommy, and their daughters Abby and Luna, who try to befriend him. When he later attempts his suicide, the noose comes loose from the ceiling, so he visits Sonya’s grave where he tells her about the neighbors.
\n\nOtto has flashbacks to his past. As a young man, he tried to enlist in the army but was rejected due to his hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He met Sonya on a train when he recovered a book she had dropped.
\n\nOtto grudgingly helps his neighbor Anita with the radiators in the rowhouse she shares with her husband Reuben, a non-responsive stroke survivor. Otto holds a grudge against Reuben, but shares his frustration with the state of the neighborhood since they were in charge, quietly confiding his intention to leave \"for good\" before it gets worse; Reuben unexpectedly reacts by clutching the hose Otto is carrying as he tries to walk away.
\n\nOtto attempts suicide again, this time via carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage, and experiences a flashback of his and Sonya's courtship. This attempt is interrupted by Marisol, who pleads with him to drive her and the kids to the hospital, where Tommy has been taken after breaking his leg, falling from the ladder Otto had lent to him; he reluctantly agrees.
\n\nOtto has a flashback to his graduation with an engineering degree, when he asked Sonya to marry him. As Otto waits on a train platform preparing for another suicide attempt, an old man faints and falls forward onto the tracks. Otto saves him, then waits to be struck by the oncoming train, but at the last second takes the hand of a man who pulls him to safety. The incident of him saving the older man goes viral. When the neighborhood feral cat nearly freezes, and the neighbor who takes it in turns out to be allergic, Otto reluctantly adopts it.
\n\nAnnoyed by her inability to drive, Otto gives Marisol lessons. They visit Sonya's favorite bakery, where Otto explains about his relationship with Reuben. They once worked together to improve the neighborhood, but grew apart over trivialities such as their loyalties to different car manufacturers, culminating in Reuben's \"coup\" replacing Otto as chair of the neighborhood association.
\n\nWhen Otto confronts local teen Malcolm over the unwanted advertising circulars he delivers in the neighborhood, the boy recognizes Otto as the husband of his former teacher, and recounts how Sonya was one of the few people at school who supported him as transgender. A friendship forms, and Otto fixes his bicycle. Otto tries to dodge a \"social media journalist\" named Shari Kenzie who is attempting to interview him about his viral video. He gets angry at both Marisol and a Dye & Merika real estate agent, not wanting to come to terms with Sonya's death. He prepares to commit suicide by shotgun, flashing back to a romantic trip to Niagara Falls with Sonya which ended with a bus crash in which causes to lose her baby and became paraplegic. He is then interrupted by Malcolm, who asks to spend the night after being kicked out by his father.
\n\nOtto learns that Dye & Merika is conspiring with Reuben's estranged son, leveraging Anita's secret Parkinson's diagnosis to buy their house and put Reuben in their nursing home. He resolves to fight them, and asks for Marisol's help, finally explaining about Sonya's stillbirth and disability, his frustration at the inaccessibility of the new neighborhood development, and how he was voted out as association chair after a heated confrontation with a Dye & Merika representative. He explains that it was only Sonya that kept him from going after the company, and after she died of cancer he intended to kill himself. When Dye & Merika's nursing home comes to pick up Reuben, the neighbors band together to stop them, with Shari Kenzie exposing their actions – including their illegal access of Anita's medical records – on her live stream.
\n\nOtto collapses as he leaves, and is taken to the hospital, where he identifies Marisol as his next of kin. She is amused by the explanation that \"his heart is too big\", then goes into labor and gives birth to a son, named Marco. Otto gives Marisol and Tommy the crib he built when Sonya was pregnant, gives his car to Malcolm and buys a new one, and generally becomes closer with his neighbors.
\n\nThree years later, Tommy notices that Otto has not shoveled the snow on his walkway, and he and Marisol find that he has died of heart failure. Otto had anticipated this, leaving a letter that he has bequeathed his savings to pay for their kids' education, as well as his rowhouse, and his car.
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