A look at the fascinating new movie Tuner

But last week, I watched a new movie, which I think it... landed in a couple of theaters in 2025 but i know that it played a bunch of film festivals early in 2026 and the movie is called tuner an interesting name for a film and this is a movie where i saw the trailer quite some time ago and the trailer put forth a different it put different ideas into my head as to what the movie actually is so the preview trailer shows a very old Dustin Hoffman working with a young man who you assume in the trailer must be his grandkid, you know, based on how old the kid looks and how old Dustin looks.

I think Dustin was 87 or 88 when the movie was shot.

But they're piano tuners.

But then you get an idea that the young man is not really a piano tuner.

He actually is a safecracker.

Well, that's not the movie.

He is a piano tuner.

That part is not like a front.

And the trailer that I saw, it seemed as if it was a front.

So, the movie Tuner is about a young man named Nicky.

And the more we go along, the further into the movie we get the sort of broader... picture we get of who he is and why he is and that even somebody who is very quiet and whose default setting is to be almost passive and deferential he may still be as strongly as anyone else he may still have secret hurts and pains and disappointments that he's not really comfortable talking about he's not willing to talk about he would maybe just rather let it be and just be just be a piano tuner so this movie was written and directed by a guy i'm not familiar with or wasn't familiar with i think his name was daniel rohr and uh spelled r-o-h-e-r now that name is interesting for dustin hoffman specifically Because in a movie, what year was it? It was like 2005 or maybe it was 2003.

In the movie Runaway Jury, the very loose adaptation of John Grisham's book, because John Grisham's book was about cigarette smoking, and somehow in the movie it's about gun control.

It's about the right to arm bears.

It's not really about the right to arm bears.

But in the movie Runaway Jury, Dustin Hoffman plays an attorney named Wendell Rohr.

Now that's really a big coincidence.

In this case, I think it was a coincidence, but I don't know that many people whose name is pronounced like a lion's roar.

Although in that movie, Dustin's character's last name is spelled R-O-H-R, and the writer and filmmaker is R-O-H-E-R. So...