A Man Called Otto
“Fall in love with the grumpiest man in America.”
When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that turns his world upside down.
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Studio
Playtone
Language
en
Status
Released
How A Man Called Otto performed
Budget
$50.0M
Worldwide Gross
$113.4M
Gross Profit
$63.4M
Return
2.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$16M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Otto Anderson
Tom Hanks
Otto Anderson
Marisol
Mariana Treviño
Marisol
Jimmy
Cameron Britton
Jimmy
Malcolm
Mack Bayda
Malcolm
Tommy
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
Tommy
Anita
Juanita Jennings
Anita
Reuben
Peter Lawson Jones
Reuben
Young Otto
Truman Hanks
Young Otto
Sonya
Rachel Keller
Sonya
Hardware Store Clerk
John Higgins
Hardware Store Clerk
Hardware Store Customer
Tony Bingham
Hardware Store Customer
Hardware Store Taylor
Lily Kozub
Hardware Store Taylor
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