![]() ![]() "To Kill a Mockingbird" also contains three of the most impressive child performances I have ever witnessed-there's not a false or affected moment in any one of them. The Harper Lee-based screenplay captures wonderfully a time and a place that are absolutely real-where big brothers could solve the universe's problems in an instant and all the treasures of the world could be contained in a cigar box. The writing here is so beautiful, so lyric, so poetic. But played out against the tapestry of bigotry and hate make the legal goings-on even more compelling. Yes, the courtroom proceedings are nail-bitingly engaging. "To Kill a Mockingbird" rises to the top of the pile easily. The wrangling of legal points and the investigation into the truth just gets my cinematic blood pumping (I s'pose it's in response to my own dashed hopes of becoming an attorney). ![]() ![]() Hoo boy, am I a sucker for courtroom dramas. ![]()
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