Won't You Be My Neighbor?

(2018)

★ 8 IMDb · 615 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2018

Runtime: 95 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Морган Невилл

Cast: Margaret Whitmer, Tom Junod, Joanne Rogers, Jim Rogers, Max King, Hedda Sharapan, Betty Seamans, Junlei Li, Joe Negri, David Newell

Plot

For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his puppets and his many friends, spoke directly to young children about some of life's most important issues.

Charmingly soft-spoken and yet powerfully incisive expressing his profound ideals, Fred Rogers was a unique presence on television for generations. Through interviews of his family and colleagues, the life of this would-be pastor is explored as a man who found a more important calling to provide an oasis for children in a video sea of violent bombardment. That proved to be his landmark series, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968), a show that could gently delve into important subjects no other children's show would have dared for that time. In doing so, Rogers experienced a career where his sweet-tempered idealism charmed and influenced the world whether it be scores of children on TV or recalcitrant authorities in government. However, that beloved personality also hid Rogers' deep self-doubts about himself and occasional misjudgments even as he proved a rock of understanding in times of tragedy for a world that did not always comprehend a man of such noble character.