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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 372
Released: April 29, 1998 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
CONTAINS: FEATURE COMMENTARY WITH DIRECTOR ROBERT MULLIGAN, FEARFUL SYMMETRY FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH CAST MEMBERS PLUS HISTORIC STILLS OF THE TOWN OF MONROEVILLE, ORIGINAL LOCATION FOOTAGE AND INTERVIEWS WITH RESIDENTS, AND THEATRICAL TRAILER.
Description of To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition):
Ranked 34 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films, To Kill a Mockingbird is quite simply one of the finest family-oriented dramas ever made. A beautiful and deeply affecting adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, the film retains a timeless quality that transcends its historically dated subject matter (racism in the Depression-era South) and remains powerfully resonant in present-day America with its advocacy of tolerance, justice, integrity, and loving, responsible parenthood. It's tempting to call this an important "message" movie that should be required viewing for children and adults alike, but this riveting courtroom drama is anything but stodgy or pedantic. As Atticus Finch, the small-town Alabama lawyer and widower father of two, Gregory Peck gives one of his finest performances with his impassioned defense of a black man (Brock Peters) wrongfully accused of the rape and assault of a young white woman. While his children, Scout (Mary Badham) and Jem (Philip Alford), learn the realities of racial prejudice and irrational hatred, they also learn to overcome their fear of the unknown as personified by their mysterious, mostly unseen neighbor Boo Radley (Robert Duvall, in his brilliant, almost completely nonverbal screen debut). What emerges from this evocative, exquisitely filmed drama is a pure distillation of the themes of Harper Lee's enduring novel, a showcase for some of the finest American acting ever assembled in one film, and a rare quality of humanitarian artistry (including Horton Foote's splendid screenplay and Elmer Bernstein's outstanding score) that seems all but lost in the chaotic morass of modern cinema. --Jeff Shannon
To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition) Reviews:
a classic! 
2009-10-26 - I had seen the movie MANY years before and decided to check out a copy of the book from our local library. What a good read! I was curious about the movie so bought it from Amazon. The movie is amazing and follows the book very closely. My husband had never seen the movie and was riveted by it. Gregory Peck captures Atticus' demeanor to a t!
Wonderful
2009-10-06 - This movie was just as wonderful as I remembered it. Theres so many junk movies being churned out so it was a pleasure to watch a movie classic..with teachable moments..for our grandchildren who enjoyed it.
Must See for Moral Truths
2009-09-29 - Harper Lee's novel, on which the screenplay for this film is based, is one of the very finest American novels. The film is as fine as the book. The storyline follows the lives of three children, playmates in an small fictional Alabama County seat town (Maycomb in Maycomb County) where Atticus Finch, an attorney and father of two of the children is working to defend a black man who is falsely accused of the rape of a white woman. The story deals with honor and dishonor, racism, hatred, bigotry and redeeming love. It treats with gentle irony and profound moral insight the legal, social and spiritual issues of cruel poverty and heroic moral courage when that poverty, together with stupidity and moral cowardice call for taking the right course even when there is no possibility of victory. It is a story of the triumph of decency and grace where both are out of keeping with old codes and evil assumptions. It is a call for courage and a call for courage.
To Kill a Mockingbord
2009-09-15 - Finally--reading a classic I have long ignored. Not purposely, but simply because life got in the way--raising a family, working two jobs, dealing with setbacks and disappointment, trying always to rise above the roadblocks, to make it all worthwhile, and even have some fun, along the way. There were years when my passion for reading took a back seat to being a wife, a mom, a part of the work force that keeps society moving, money in the bank account. Reading never stopped, but time became a luxury I often had to steal for an occasional book. Today, when I might have three books going at once, plus all the internet information I can devour, bliss is mine. Now, as I read To Kill a Mockingbird, I'm beyond sad that this feast was denied me so long. Given the current, woeful state of the world, of national politics, reading this book has provided me a deeper well of comprehension of racial realities of which I was aware, certainly, which offended me, throughout my life. But this small jewel of a book has cracked my mind open in a way nothing else ever has, driving home again the immense power of books to reveal, to define reality clearly, in yet another light. I will be giving this book as gifts for a very long time.
Everyone Should Watch This Movie Before They Die!!!
2009-09-07 - This is an all-time classic treatment of what prejudice does to people, and of the injustice there is when people react to their ignorance, rather to the truths staring them in the face. It is a haunting tale which has been a totally different experience for me at the different times in my life when I viewed it. This is one of those stories you should see many times throughout your life, as your own experiences will change your viewing capacity.
Gregory Peck, et al, do amazing work creating characters that seem to have lept right out of Harper Lee's pages. The images that I saw in my mind while reading the book are clearly adapted in this movie and it is a wonder.
Bravo to them all!!!
I've watched this now with my son, and will watch it again when he gives me a grandson.
