Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Margaret WhitmerSelf - TV Producer
- Tom JunodSelf - Journalist and Fred's Friend
- Joanne RogersSelf - Fred's Wife
- Jim RogersSelf - Fred's Son
- Max KingSelf - Fred's Biographer
- Hedda SharapanSelf - Child Development Advisor
- Betty SeamansSelf - Actress / Mrs. McFeely
- Junlei LiSelf - Fred Rogers Center Co-director
- Joe NegriSelf - Actor / Handyman Negri
- David NewellSelf - Actor / Mr. McFeely
Recommendations
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IndieWire
In Won’t You Be My Neighbor, the touching and insightful survey of Rogers’ decades-spanning career from Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville (“Twenty Feet From Stardom”), the filmmaker highlights Rogers’ capacity to explore complex themes through the lens of a kid’s program that took a dead-serious approach to his young viewers’ needs. - 90
Uproxx
It’s kind of hard to write about Won’t You Be My Neighbor? as a film. It’s exceptionally well-made, mind you – which shouldn’t be a huge surprise coming from Morgan Neville, who won an Academy Award for directing 20 Feet From Stardom – but beyond being a film, it’s an experience of earnestness we don’t see or hear much anymore, to the point that it’s a bit of a jolt to the system. - 88
Movie Nation
Oscar winner Morgan Neville (“20 Feet From Stardom”) carves in stone the case for Rogers’ as an authentic American TV saint. - 88
Boston Globe
In his three-decade run, Rogers touched millions of souls. But the film is honest in questioning whether, in the end, he really made a difference. - 88
The Seattle Times
Fred Rogers is gone and the world is a much scarier place; this film, like a gift, briefly transports us back to the calm we felt long ago. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
There's more to Fred Rogers than any 93-minute documentary can contain, and it was easy for me not to lament what Neville wasn't doing and just to embrace what Rogers was. - 80
Village Voice
Watching this movie is like freebasing sincerity — a scarce resource in our current entertainment hellscape. It’ll give you warm fuzzies for days. - 75
Slant Magazine
It captures the strength of Fred Rogers's convictions even as his gentleness and sincerity fell further out of favor.
