Won't You Be My Neighbor?

The film evokes a range of emotions befitting a childhood lesson on feelings, from sadness about the Challenger accident to anger at a Fox News report snidely blaming Rogers for millennials’ behavior.

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The Mr. Rogers documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is a tearjerker with a purpose

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Without undue fawning, Neville’s moving portrait does a lovely job of presenting Rogers as two people, the public figure and the private one, sharing the same closet full of zip-up sweaters.

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“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” presents the history of Fred McFeely Rogers, Presbyterian minister, children’s advocate and the most beloved Republican since Abe Lincoln.

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Oscar-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville's documentary focuses on TV icon Fred Rogers

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Morgan Neville's look at Mr. Rogers' worldview and legacy is full of lovely 'Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood' clips and Fred Rogers' own words.

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Won’t You Be My Neighbor? presents Rogers as a complex, fallible, often very funny human who had self-doubts like anybody else, beautifully expressed in a series of animated interstitials (by Ariel Costa and Rodrigo Miguel Rangel) that use Rogers’ doppelgänger, Daniel Tiger. Neville’s film isn’t making a case for canonization.

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“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” and Mister Rogers Insist Humanity Can Be Better Than This

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Of course, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is at its core a crowd-pleaser, so every unflattering fact unearthed about Rogers is offset by a dozen glowing ones, including Clemmons praising his boss’s eventual 180 on homosexuality.

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Loafers off, cardigan on, Mister Rogers returns in a gentle documentary for adults who need a hug.

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But Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is only interested in this insofar as it can support the film’s assertion as to how amazing Fred Rogers was.

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