The quiet urgency of Mr. Rogers’ legacy

Published July 23, 2019 2:56pm ET



When the first trailer for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood dropped this week, America collectively cried. Tom Hanks plays Mr. Rogers in the biopic, and the gratifying union of Forrest Gump, Sheriff Woody, and Fred Rogers is everything our child selves could have dreamed.


In the trailer, a journalist is tasked with profiling Mr. Rogers, and his partner tells him, “Please don’t ruin my childhood.” It’s what we’re all thinking at the start of the trailer: If we find out that Mr. Rogers had some shady past, then we certainly don’t need to see a whole film about it.

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