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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: OSCARS '62: To Kill a Mockingbird
Description: CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, sexual assault, false imprisonment.
1962 contained not one but two books that were thrust upon us as required school reading (or acting), but none loom as large as this story. To be fair, it’s one of the few stories about the pre-Civil Rights Act South that’s presented through the eyes of a child, and that means it’s perfect school fodder. The movie was a huge labor of love from the entire creative team, which is fantastic and reads on screen, but also makes for a truly uneven watching experi...