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To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition)

To Kill a Mockingbird (Collector's Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great
Review: Great, one of the best movies of all time. Gregory Peck gives his beautifully award winning performance. Followed up by Robert Duvalls scary Boo Bradley. Good movie if you haven't seen it do so now.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: TKAM is a great movie
Review: I had to watch it for school, and I wasn't expecting much. However, I really got into it. The movie captures so many emotions that the book doesn't. The acting in the movie was great. The thing about To Kill A Mockingbird that made it so great was how it touched down on lots of topics without losing the main concept of the story. You should definitely buy it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My favorite all-time movie.
Review: I found Gregory Peck's portrayal to be very faithful to the character of Atticus Finch. The whole cast was effectively convincing of Macon, GA in the 1930's. I have watched this film about 20 times, but I keep going back for more.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wonderful and enjoyable for every age.
Review: This was a wonderful movie mainly because it touches all aspects of life; parenthood,childhood, and even aloneness.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Most Touching Film to Date
Review: Ignore all these other reviews giving TKM one star. They are just youg high schoolers who think these reviews are jokes or they want to act macho and say the film stinks. I watched this film in class (Im an 8th grade boy) and it brought tears to my eyes. Great movie for anyone and everyone. The most tounching film I have ever seen.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Hard To Explain My Reason For 2 Stars
Review: The reason I only give this film 2 stars is that so much important material from the book was left out that I didn't even enjoy this film. The kid who played Dill annoyed me and was such a dork compared to Dill in the book. The main reason I give it 2 is because the only person I enjoyed in the whole film was Gregory Peck...well, him and Robert Duvall (who doesn't speak).

IF YOU HAVE READ THE BOOK, DON'T WATCH THIS!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Strong Performances From The Three Lead Cast.
Review: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham and Phillip Alford gives strong performances in this film. To some this film look like another court room drama but am surprise it`s not. It`s only haves one court room scene. Also this film tells in a children`s point of view, is very intersting to the film. The movie is uneven at the times, even at the court room scene. Thanks to the three leads make the film great. Is only the end of the film-Robert Duvall appears in the last five minutes of the film.

DVD`s has an fine non-anamorphic Widescreen(1.85:1) transer and an Clear Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono. Grade:A.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: BEST MOVIE EVER
Review: everyone has to see this movie. it is the sweetest movie. it's great to watch with family and the children are the best! scout makes the cutest lil faces :) well i hope you take this into consideration! good luck

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: "America" distilled into an epic film
Review: "~This is arguably the finest motion picture ever made about the Vision called "America." It is an idealist recreation of small-town and rural United States. It explains the Great Depression, especially in the South, in a way that makes that"~ rendering of her book, its time, place and people. Fatherhood has never been so splendidly delineated, childhood so perceptively depicted, bigotry so thoroughly"~ see in the superb opening credits, each item being carefully taken from its place in an old cigar box. And finally, in the closing moments, we connect the title to the basis of this story's morality, much as Atticus Finch tells it to his son, Jem, when presenting him with a small-calibre rifle: "... you must never kill a mockingbird ....""~ vision worth living up to, and seeing over and over. Every father should be Atticus Finch, every child should live in the secure simplicity of "Macomb." Peck won Best Actor, and Horton Foote best screenplay writer. The film won the "British Oscar" - BAFTA's award -for best foreign film, and Alan Pakula won BAFTA's award as best director of a foreign film.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A rare, quiet, greatness forgotten in modern cinema
Review: I felt compelled to write a review after scanning those previously written. I understand that much of the content was left out from the novel, but as a movie, few can compare to the delicate perfection reflected in this work. Movies and books are apples and oranges, and both will survive if the common themes and ideals displayed in both tellings can be valued in time. What makes both works great separately is that they hold lofty ideals, and both are able to reach and surpass this height without the exploitation of such ideals in the name of entertainment. We should be so lucky as to see this sort of restrained and understated film-making again when Hollywood adapts an American classic or even attempts to retain an original text's intent. Very simply put, rarely does cinema get better than this. Do not judge it simply against the template of the novel, but as a work on it's own. I appreciate criticism of adaptations of prose, but I feel, if the movie of To Kill a Mockingbird failed to include the entire beautiful tapestry of the novel, it succeeded in maintaining the spirit in which the book was written and has shown us enough to understand the craftsmanship inherent in such a work.


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