A fabulous evening with Cecilia Peck, an actress, film producer, and the daughter of Gregory Peck, Stuart Klawans, the film critic for the Nation, and federal judge John Keenan. Gregory Peck’s son, Anthony, was also in the audience. It was great to see the film just a few days before Halloween. The audience and our post-screening guests discussed why it is that Atticus Finch is such an iconic fictional character, the model of the moral attorney, the embodiment of what we wish our lawyers and fathers to be. Atticus Finch has influenced a generation of students to enter law school. He, in fact, represents a moral clarity that we rarely see in the legal system itself. Cecilia Peck showed footage of a documentary about her father that she co-produced, and it was interesting to see Gregory Peck, late in his life, talking about Atticus Finch as his favorite role.
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I read To Kill a Mockingbird back in my freshman year of high school, and my english teacher who I had at the time was “In Love” with Atticus Finch. She would go on in class how what a great human being he was and how courageous he was to take on a case of such nature. She would say he shows what the true meaning or being moral is. Thinking back to that time in high school now that I am older and had seen the film,I understand what my teacher was trying to tell us fourteen year old children about being a person who make moral decisions whether other people believe you should be doing so.