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www.filmcritic.com - : To Kill a Mockingbird, based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Harper Lee, is Atticus’s (Gregory Peck) struggle for justice in a small, racist community. He barely, but congenially, balances widowed fatherhood with his quest for what’s right. He takes the impossible case with quiet fervor so as not to lose self-respect, risking the admiration of his neighbors and peers, and the safety of his children in the process. more...
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www.movie-vault.com - : Watching ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' was a truly great cinematic experience. Several friends, the ones with more experience in films, had recommended this film to me before, and everytime I made a comment about having to watch more older flicks, among the names that came up there was always this title. Now I can see why. more...
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www.cinescene.com - : It's no secret that adapting a novel to film can be a perilous affair. A movie, even when it's good, doesn't often convey the feeling of the book it's based on. But in this case screenwriter Horton Foote treated the Harper Lee novel - about a Depression-era Alabama lawyer and his two children - with love and respect, and the director successfully evoked the novel's sense of childhood mystery and tenderness. more...
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