One of the heartwarming films I could watch during these dull, dreary days of the lockdown is called A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood. If it is just fiction, I can’t obviously be writing about it here in this column that focuses on real people who can be held up as candles that light up our way.
This film is based on the life and contribution of a real life hero – Fred McFeely Rogers. He was an ordained Presbyterian minister, but Americans see him as the creator of a television series that helped generations of American pre-school children come to grips with things that adults would not easily talk to them about—like divorce or death. He was the creator and host of the highly popular TV series called Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, which ran for—believe it or not!—thirty-three years, from 1968 to 2001!
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