Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Jun 15 '07
Pros: Peck, Elmer Bernstein's introspective score
Cons: Overlong and meandering
Summary: To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) "...remember it [is] a sin to kill a mockingbird ...they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us." Atticus Finch When a film establishes a character as "the greatest hero in American film," by the ...
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Aug 04 '11
Pros: Peck; Peters; entire cast; score; cinematography; script
Cons: Pacing may feel uneven, but I think it captures the story well
Summary: I honestly can't remember if I saw the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird before I read the classic novel by Harper Lee on which it was ...
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Sep 28 '10
Pros: excellent in nearly every way
Cons: nothing
Summary: This is banned book week, and I was surprised when I saw the list that in this day and age that To Kill a Mockingbird was still on the list. Not only did I read the book in high school, but the film was one I would definitely rank as ...
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Jul 07 '07
Pros: Peck, Peters, characters, story, message
Cons: Book is better, Badham annoying
Summary: Based on the Harper Lee classic, this film is set in the South in the 1930s, as upstanding white lawyer and father Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) decides to defend black man Tom Robinson (Brock Peters), on trial for raping a white girl. Meanwhile his two ...
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Oct 14 '04
Pros: The entire production (acting, direction, music score, everything) is magnificent.
Cons: None.
Summary: Alan Pakula, Robert Mulligan and Horton Foote have made an absolutely terrific movie of one of the greatest books in contemporary fiction. The three years covered in the book are compressed into one year in the movie, and almost everything of importance ...
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Sep 27 '04
Pros: acting, Peck, just about everything
Cons: some elements in book not in movie
Summary: If ever there was a film that everybody should see at least once in their lifetimes, To Kill a Mockingbird is that movie. Based on a Pulitzer prize winning book by Harper Lee of the same name (which people should also read) it features such ...
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Dec 09 '03
Pros: Gregory Peck, the child actors, direction and script.
Cons: The black inhabitants of the town aren't well-defined individuals.
Summary: In this period of abject poverty (due to Christmas and other factors), I haven’t gone out to rent any movies at the video store in the past few weeks. However, I still have a lot of cheap videos and tapes in my collection, some of which haven’t been ...
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Nov 02 '03
Pros: Excellent adaption of a novel dealing with bigotry and false accusations.
Cons: None that I can see, may be a bit too intense for younger children.
Summary: There's something about this film that I can't quite put my finger on. In terms of film-making, it's one of the best in terms of lighting, characters, adaptation of a novel, and of course, storytelling. Told through the eyes and memories of Scout Finch, t ...
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Aug 08 '03
Pros: Gregory Peck. Superior script.
Cons: Rich supporting characters cut or streamlined for time.
Summary: I spent today in my home dance studio, carefully working my way through a series of pliers an ...
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Jun 08 '03
Pros: THe entire production
Cons: None
Summary: Every so often, as surely as night follows day, a film comes along that manages to transport us from our everyday lives and into a time and place that is recalled through memories of better and in a reversal of fortunes, turbulent times. To Kill A...
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Aug 12 '02
Pros: Gregory Peck and the entire cast, the directing, the story, the score, the photography-everything
Cons: none at all
Summary: “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...’til you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
That has got to among the best lines ever spoken by a lawyer in any movie, and...
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Apr 24 '02
Pros: Performances, cast, wonderful musical score, nostalgia, moody photography
Cons: Mary Badham retired from movies (perhaps wisely, considering
fates of Former Child Stars)
Summary: Gregory Peck inspired countless viewers to become lawyers (yeah, thanks guy; it's all your fault!) with this, stated to be his personal favorite of his many performances. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a reverent and effective adaptation of the bestselling...
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Jan 09 '02
Pros: Based on fabulous book
Cons: Not for children
Summary: I wrote this review as an assignment in school. I received a good grade. I thought others might want to read it.
Everyone loved Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, but was it such a good idea to turn it into a movie? To Kill A Mockingbird...
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May 20 '01
Pros: Great material, great screenplay, great acting, great all around!
Cons: NONE. (Unless you don't watch B&W movies- which is a tragedy in this case!)
Summary: This has to be one of the all time best adaptations of a book to a movie ever. Horton Foote (who won an Oscar for this screenplay and Tender Mercies) absolutely captured the entire spirit of the book. You can never put every single detail from a book...
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Feb 12 '01
Pros: A Classic Tale for learning about the courage to stand up for what is right.
Cons: A little slow for today's viewers who are attuned to a faster pace.
Summary: Atticus Finch is the man we all wanted our fathers to be. And if we were lucky, we not only had him, but a Boo Radley in our lives as well. Why? Because, in their own way, both are men of conscience; men for all seasons.
I sometimes say...
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