Such A Good Feeling: The Affectionate Documentary 'Won't You Be My Neighbor?'
Beloved children's show host Fred Rogers is the subject of this compassionate — but not blindly worshipful — documentary from the filmmaker behind 20 Feet from Stardom.
by Ella Taylor
Jun 07, 2018
3 minutes
I expect you'll be wanting to know whether Mr. Rogers was really like that in life. According to Won't You Be My Neighbor?, Morgan Neville's loving portrait of the much-beloved champion of slow television for children, the answer is yes, but it's complicated. Which is just what you want from a tender tribute that's anything but a hagiography of the ordained Presbyterian minister who took the pie-in-the-face out of TV-for-tots.
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