Top cast:William West,Bessie Learn,George Lessey
Director:Andrew Niccol
Genre:Drama
Region:Malaysia
Year:2002
Storyline:The Academy Award winning screenplay was faithfully adapted by screenwriter Horton Foote from the 1960 novel of the same name by Harper Lee - who had written a semi-autobiographical account of her small-town Southern life (Monroeville, Alabama), her widower father/attorney Amasa Lee, and its setting of racial unrest...If I""m right, you""ll turn into Superman.And if I""m wrong, you""ve got yourself one helluva story." Clark told her that she had a tremendous imagination - when she suddenly threw herself over the railing into the raging water upstream of the falls - expecting to be saved.Coates).Its nominations for Best Actor (Peter O""Toole, with his first of seven unsuccessful Oscar nominations), Best Supporting Actor (Omar Sharif), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Robert Bolt) were unrewarded - O""Toole lost to Gregory Peck for his performance inTo Kill a Mockingbird (1962).Table at the window looking out on Fifth Avenue.Boxes with flowers and pink lampshades, string orchestra and I don""t know, yes, yes, willow plumes, Inverness capes, dry champagne and snow on the ground.]Relationships formed during filming would last for he remainder of Gregory Peck""s life -- he received the pocketwatch of Harper Lee""s father; he became the surrogate father to Mary Badham; and Brock Peters delivered Peck""s eulogy after his death in June of 2003.