To Kill a Mockingbird Film Presentation

Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 2:00 pm 

Six-year-old Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch (Mary Badham) is growing up in the Depression era of the early 1930s in a small Southern town in this highly acclaimed motion picture based on Harper Lee’s semi-autobiographical novel. Jean’s father (Gregory Peck), the town lawyer, is a wise, quiet man with a great sense of justice who defends a poor, black man accused of rape.

Gregory Peck, Mary Badham
Universal Pictures; Directed by Robert Mulligan
Black and White; Not Rated; 129 minutes; 1962

The Big Read: NH Reads To Kill a Mockingbird is a project of the Center for the Book at the NH State Library. The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest. For more information on The Big Read, visit http://bigreadnh.org.