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To Kill a Mockingbird
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American black-and-white drama, trial, and crime film directed by Robert Mulligan. The movie was produced by Robert Mulligan and Alan J. Pakula, with a screenplay by Horton Foote. It stars Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, and Robert Duvall. The narrative is set in Alabama, and the film was distributed by Universal Pictures.
The production had a budget of 2,000,000 and a runtime of 129 minutes. It received an Academy Award for Best Actor and an Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, along with a Golden Globe Award for Best Film Promoting International Understanding. The film was also nominated for Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
Critically, the film holds an IMDb rating of 8.2 based on 350,900 votes and a Metascore of 88. It has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 93%. The film is noted for winning three Oscars, with 14 wins and 16 nominations in total.
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8.0Scout 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.
Cast
- Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch
- Mary Badham as Scout Finch
- Phillip Alford as Jem
- John Megna as Dill Harris
- Frank Overton as Sheriff Heck Tate
- Brock Peters as Tom Robinson
Themes
- right and justice
- rape
- sibling relationship
- based on novel or book
- court case
- court
- isolation
- becoming an adult
- falsely accused
- arbitrary law
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Ratings
IMDb
8.2/10
350,117 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
93%
Metacritic
88/100
- Year
- 1962
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Rated
- Approved
- Awards
- Won 3 Oscars. 14 wins & 16 nominations total
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Encyclopedic overview
The film's trailer To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 American legal drama crime film directed by Robert Mulligan, starring Gregory Peck and Mary Badham. Adapted from Harper Lee's 1960 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the film follows lawyer Atticus Finch in Depression-era Alabama educating his children against the Jim Crow laws while defending a black man who is wrongfully indicted for the rape of a white woman.
The film won overwhelmingly positive reception from both the critics and the public; a box-office success, it earned more than six times its budget. The film was awarded three Academy Awards, including Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay, and was nominated for eight, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress.
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