Academy Award-winner Al Pacino gives a wondrous performance as a lonely locksmith whose life is transformed by a new romance in this magical love story — “Manglehorn” — from acclaimed director David Gordon Green.
A.J. Manglehorn (Pacino) is a reclusive Texas key-maker who spends his days caring for his cat, finding comfort in his work and lamenting a long lost love.
Manglehorn’s life has been mired in loneliness. On the outside, living a mundane life of opening doors for people with lost keys, feeding his cat, Fanny, enjoying his liver and onions at a nearby cafeteria and weekly chats with a friendly bank teller, his interior life is anything but simple. A man with a mysterious background and a broken heart, he churns out daily letters to his long lost love of 40 years prior, Clara – the “one that got away” – the only person to whom he can truly express his complex and pained emotional life. Each day, he tentatively opens his mailbox – which is guarded by a hive of bees – to see if, by chance, Clara has written him back.
Enter kind-hearted bank teller Dawn (Oscar-winner Holly Hunter) whose interest in the eccentric Manglehorn may just be able to draw him out of his shell.
Chris Messina co-stars in this remarkably rich and humorous tale of second chances, which boasts “the finest performance Pacino has delivered in years” (The Guardian).