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MOVIE · 2018

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Documentary95 min

For more than 30 years, Fred Rogers welcomed children into Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, using puppets, songs, and direct conversation to talk about fear, anger, loss, and kindness on television. Morgan Neville’s documentary follows how Rogers — host, writer, producer, pianist, and minister — shaped that quietly radical approach and why it mattered in homes across America. Alongside archival clips from the show, interviews with Joanne Rogers and François Clemmons fill in the man behind the cardigans: exacting, thoughtful, and deeply committed to treating children as serious people.

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