Adapted by Christopher Sergal from the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Harper Lee.
Harper Lee's timeless novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1960 and instantly became an American classic. Set in the depths of the Great Depression in Alabama, the story focuses on six-year-old Scout Finch, who lives with her older brother, Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, a lawyer. When the courts appoints their father to defend a black man accused of raping a white woman, the children are soon caught up in lethal adult conflicts surrounding class and prejudice that bring them ultimately to understand the meaning of courage and compassion.
Note: Harper Lee’s provocative novel includes accurate and frank use of the racially-charged language of the time period. This use of language remains in Sergel’s adaptation and helps serve the story as a bold and honest depiction of racial injustice in 1930s America.
