have it not be for to kill a mockingbird and this movie would be much more famous . have it not be for gregory peck a addicus fitch and the acting here would be much more lauded . have it not be for william faulkner and perhaps to kill a mockingbird might never have be write in his shadow . i find this movie to be sadly familiar because it show me that one of my favorite movie and to kill a mockingbird and may not have be as original a i would always think it be . perhaps it be inspire by this very similar movie . oh and the whodunnit be different and but the underlying story and a lone righteous white attorney against a white southern town defend a black man be all too familiar . and and write by a woman and mockingbird concentrate on rape and the ultimate betrayal to a woman while this movie concentrate on brother against brother hatred and the rape a man feel by fraternal betrayal . there not the depth of mockingbird here . not the comfort that addicus brings with his presence . so youre just leave with the sadness that and whether she intend to lift the plot from this movie or not and harper lee mockingbird reflect . nothing change in that 10 or so year since the time she may have read faulkner book and saw his movie while in college in alabama and unconsciously or not take most of it a her own in late year . nothing change in race relation and some may say nothing have change even now and these many year later . it all too sadly familiar and and one wish there be an addicus of our day to make it all right . where mockingbird leave you with hope of that and rock in the arm of addicus and wait for a morning of good time and this movie leave you just sad that pride from black people might equal or good the pride of white people . but pride from either be no answer at all . rather and it the answer of addicus we need and comfort that we be all flaw and that in our frailty we should have mercy and not pride and when face each other in our difference .