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To Kill a Mockingbird

A father must expose his children to a small town's outraged passions… and can only protect them with his love.

8.0 / 10

129 minutes

1962-12-20

English

US

Actors :

Mary Badham, Gregory Peck, Phillip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, Brock Peters, Rosemary Murphy, Ruth White, Estelle Evans, Paul Fix, Collin Wilcox Paxton, James Anderson, Alice Ghostley, Robert Duvall, William Windom

Description

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.

Reviews

Andres Gomez

Andres Gomez

6/23/2021, 3:57:29 PM

If you like children's story, you would love this movie about how the world is shaped from their eyes. If you don't ... you may find some entertainment in the picture of Southern US and the racial fight that was taking place at the time ...

barrymost

barrymost

6/23/2021, 3:58:25 PM

The part Gregory Peck played in this was reportedly his most favorite role. And he does a marvelous job of it too, as Atticus Finch, the Southern lawyer who agrees to take on the case of a black man falsely accused of rape. The story, from Harper Lee's classic novel, is in itself wonderful. It's filled with brilliant and iconic sequences, just a couple memorable ones being the dramatic courtroom...

Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

11/17/2022, 2:21:15 AM

**A striking, culturally relevant and indisputably important film.** It is not very rare to see that an actor's career, however prolific it may be, ends up being especially remembered thanks to his participation in a very small set of films, or even for his participation in a single film. I don't see this as a demerit, but as something unavoidable: only a very limited set of films ends up survi...