Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Rating: 8.7 Plot Summary
Charmingly soft-spoken and yet powerfully incisive expressing his profound ideals, Fred Rogers was a unique presence on television for generations. Through interviews of his family and colleagues, the life of this would-be pastor is explored as a man who found a more important calling to provide an oasis for children in a video sea of violent bombardment. That proved to be his landmark series, MisteRogers' Neighborhood (1968), a show that could gently delve into important subjects no other children's show would have dared for that time. In doing so, Rogers experienced a career where his sweet-tempered idealism charmed and influenced the world whether it be scores of children on TV or recalcitrant authorities in government. However, that beloved personality also hid Rogers' deep self-doubts about himself and occasional misjudgments even as he proved a rock of understanding in times of tragedy for a world that did not always comprehend a man of such noble character.
Director: Morgan Neville
Running time: 1h 34min
Genre: Documentary,Biography
Release date: 29 June 2018 (USA)
Cast: Joanne Rogers, Betty Aberlin, David Bianculli, McColm Cephas Jr., François Scarborough Clemmons, Bill Clinton
