SPECIAL BOOK RELEASE EVENT: Admission includes a copy of Harper Lee's new book, Go Set a Watchman, at the post-screening midnight release!

A literary night 55 years in the making... Celebrate the long-awaited release of Harper Lee's second novel, Go Set a Watchman, by first watching the Oscar-winning adaptation of "To Kill A Mockingbird." Watch the film, pick up your copies on the way out, and become the first readers in the area to own the most anticipated book of not only this, but of the last 50 years.

"A time capsule, preserving hopes and sentiments from a kinder, gentler, more naive America." -Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"Universally recognized as a classic, and the label is well deserved."-James Berardinelli, ReelViews

"Harper Lee's child's-eye view of southern bigotry gains something in its translation to the screen by Robert Mulligan, who knows exactly where to place the camera to catch a child's subjective experience." -Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

"One of those rare instances when a movie perfectly captures the essence of its source material without compromising it in any way." -Matt Brunson, Creative Loafing

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel was translated to film in 1962 by Horton Foote and the producer/director team of Robert Mulligan and Alan J. Pakula. Set a small Alabama town in the 1930s, the story focuses on scrupulously honest, highly respected lawyer Atticus Finch, magnificently embodied by Gregory Peck. Finch puts his career on the line when he agrees to represent Tom Robinson (Brock Peters), a black man accused of rape. The trial and the events surrounding it are seen through the eyes of Finch's six-year-old daughter Scout (Mary Badham). While Robinson's trial gives the film its momentum, there are plenty of anecdotal occurrences before and after the court date: Scout's ever-strengthening bond with older brother Jem (Philip Alford), her friendship with precocious young Dill Harris (a character based on Lee's childhood chum Truman Capote and played by John Megna), her father's no-nonsense reactions to such life-and-death crises as a rampaging mad dog, and especially Scout's reactions to, and relationship with, Boo Radley (Robert Duvall in his movie debut), the reclusive "village idiot" who turns out to be her salvation when she is attacked by a venomous bigot. To Kill a Mockingbird won Academy Awards for Best Actor (Peck), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Art Direction.