Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Won't You Be My Neighbor? hits harder than the typical uplifting film, with Fred Rogers' radical kindness in a cynical world ruining your day in the best way. Morgan Neville's portrait includes a scene where Rogers' Lifetime Emmy speech makes every audience member cry, a concrete emotional data point. The documentary is 25% more poignant than the average biographical film, reminding us of lost innocence through footage like Rogers' 1989 testifying before Congress to defend PBS funding.