Frank Overton

To Kill a Mockingbird

(1962)
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16 Mar 1963
? NOT RATED
129 min
Harper Lee (based on her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"), Horton Foote (screenplay)
Won 3 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 16 nominations.
Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1961. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama a racially divided Alabama town, set in the early 1930s, and modeled after Monroeville where Harper Lee grew up. Finch agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead. How will the trial turn out - and will it effect any changes in racial attitudes in Maycomb?