The trailer for ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor’ is a warm cardigan of human kindness

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It might seem silly to say that a trailer could make you cry, but it did.

No doubt, the majority of Americans alive today were at some point touched by the existence of the classic PBS children’s show Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. From King Friday to Fred Rogers’ comfortable cardigans, we all found something to love and to enjoy with this show.

One of the most incredible things about Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood is that is felt so unassuming. Rogers was nerdy and low-key and seemingly unobtrusive. But he wasn’t; he tackled extremely touchy subjects, especially for the 1970s, like racism and segregation and divorce. These were not the usual subjects of a children’s program but he used his platform to show children, and the world, the capabilities of human kindness and empathy.

Won’t You Be My Neighbor, directed by Oscar winner Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom) dazzled the Sundance Film Festival and will next be seen at the San Francisco International Film Festival in April. Focus Features will release the acclaimed documentary in select theaters on June 8th.

Here is the trailer.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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