Atticus Finch literary journals". Alice Petry remarked, "Atticus has become something of a folk hero in legal circles and is treated almost as if he were an actual person". Examples of Atticus Finch's impact on the legal profession are plentiful. Richard Matsch, the federal judge who presided over the Timothy McVeigh trial, counts Atticus as a major judicial influence. One law professor at the University of Notre Dame stated that the most influential textbook from which he taught was "To Kill a Mockingbird", and an article in the "Michigan Law Review" asserts, "No real-life lawyer has done more for the self-image or
My Father the Hero (1991 film) My Father the Hero (1991 film) My Father the Hero (original French title: "Mon père, ce héros") is a 1991 French film directed by Gérard Lauzier. An English language remake of the movie was made in 1994 . The name of the film comes from a famous poem by the French poet Victor Hugo, ""Mon père, ce héros"," published in 1859. The story introduces André (Gérard Depardieu), a Frenchman who is divorced from his wife. He takes his beautiful teenage daughter, Véronique (Marie Gillain), on vacation to a paradise island with him. She is desperate to appear as a woman