To Kill a Mockingbird
Multiple dates and times
Naro Cinema, 23517
Description
Monday, July 29th at 7pm (hosted) & Tuesday, July 30th at 1pm
Scout Finch (Mary Badham), 6,and her older brother, Jem (Phillip Alford), live in sleepy Maycomb, Ala., 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. To Kill a Mockingbird is a textbook example of a message movie done right — sober-minded and earnest, but never letting its social conscience get in the way of gripping drama. The film won three Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Peck, and was nominated for eight, including Best Picture. In 1995, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. (1962, 2h 9m)

MONDAY NIGHT PRESENTER: Page Laws was a close companion of Mal’s. She is Emerita Professor of English and was founding Dean of the Robert C Nusbaum Honors College at Norfolk State University.