Told through the eyes of Scout, a feisty six-year-old tomboy, To Kill A Mockingbird carries us on an odyssey through the fires of prejudice and injustice in 1930s Alabama.
Scout Finch (Mary Badham), 6, and her older brother, Jem (Phillip Alford), live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama., spending much of their time with their friend Dill (John Megna) and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley (Robert Duvall). When Atticus (Gregory Peck), their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson (Brock Peters) against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping. Screen legend Gregory Peck stars as courageous Southern lawyer Atticus Finch – the Academy Award winning performance hailed by the American Film Institute as the Greatest Movie Hero of All Time. Based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel about innocence, strength and conviction was nominated for 8 Academy Awards.
Set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama in the mid-1930s during the Great Depression.
Starring Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton.
Not rated.
For parents: “Its powerful evocation of racism and bigotry in the 1930s Deep South still resonates today, as do themes of empathy, compassion, and justice. Overall, this film is just as much of a timeless classic as the novel and should inspire family discussion of not only racism and injustice but also how values such as empathy and compassion can overcome entrenched bigotry and profound ignorance.” – Common Sense Media