To Kill a Mockingbird

8.88

Rating: 8.88 | Votes: 41

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Starting life in the 50's this movie describes the laid back lifestyle we all lived. Kids found fun in using their own imagination to find fun things to do. On the serious side of this movie, life is not always fair! Expect a tear or two.

great as always
I watch this movie periodically and still enjoy it. My only disappointment with this DVD is that on an older VHS cassette I had, there were interviews with the actors who played Scout and Jem at the end of the the movie. This DVD does not have this in the "extras".

Faithful Adaptation, Wonderful Acting.
I recently read To Kill a Mockingbird and I wanted to see how it translated on screen. This movie does a wonderful job capturing the issues Harper Lee brings up. The importance of morality, which highlights the injustices of social inequality and racism. Now, some things had to be cut to fit a two hour movie, many of the earlier side stories that show the moral high ground of Atticus Finch. While unfortunate, the movie still captures how he stands out as the Good vs. the Evil of the racist "Bob" Ewell. However, this is a movie so, things get compressed.

However, Gregory Peck is truly amazing as Atticus Finch, bringing the character to life. I dare say, if I ever read the book again, I'll visualize most of these actors and actresses. 5 star adaptation, 5 star story, 5 star acting. What else could you ask for? The extras are also pretty nice but I'm not a huge extras buff. The only thing you could ask for? Well I know what I'd ask for: Hollywood should make more movies like this.

Gregory Peck- A Gentleman and a Great Actor
This movie portays the actor off screen as well as on film. He stands up for the defendant and is a good attorney. His voice was wonderful to listen to and he expressed his feelings in his special way. The scene where the father and his son are seated on the porch swing is the way that people should remember him. When he shows his love for someone you can feel it and bringing the son next to him is showing his strong feelings for his son. Gregory Peck was a special actor and it is sad to think that he is no longer with us. To see him on screen makes you see the kind of man that he really was.

VHS, Nooooo!
May I suggest you group ALL VHS titles together, not mixed in with DVD? I was extremely disappointed when I received my movie, purchased for my granddaughter, and found it to be VHS. Rats!

Only in America!
It is revealing to look at the archival movie posters included in this edition of "To Kill a Mockingbird". Watching the film last night (on the 50th anniversary of the publication of the novel), I was intrigued by both the naivete of the film (and the novel), and its frankness and boldness coming at the time of the burgeoning civil rights movement in this country. But the movie posters - which always show Scout and Jem - warned that the film was "Not Suitable for Children". Looking back over the history of the novel and film, and how the novel, especially, has been embraced by schools and young people, the posters show what a naive and parochial country America still was in 1962 - but not for much longer. But no matter, both are a "must read" and "must watch", and will be for generations of young people to come.

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