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Released
2022 · FILM

A Man Called Otto

A grieving widower on the brink of suicide must choose between ending his life and opening his heart again when a lively, pregnant family moves in next door, threatening to pull him back from the darkness.

“Fall in love with the grumpiest man in America.”

Directed by
Marc Forster
Written by
Fredrik Backman, Hannes Holm
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
126 min
ComedyDrama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

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.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 34

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Matt ChesseShot by Matthias KoenigswieserScored by Thomas NewmanDesigned by Barbara Ling

Box Office

2022 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 2.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$113.4M

Budget$50.0M
Worldwide gross$113.4M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $64.3M — 57% of worldwide · International: $49.1M (43%)

Opening weekend: $56K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $85K — 0% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 4 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Ein Mann namens Ottode
  • El peor vecino del mundoes
  • Le Pire voisin au mondefr
  • Non così vicinoit

Companies

Production2DUX², Artistic Films, Big Indie Pictures

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