Mary McDonagh Murphy’s documentary about Harper Lee offers wonderful insights into To Kill a Mockingbird’s social and literary importance, as well as its author’s personality. By THR Staff Hey, Boo ...

They’re rarely well-made, but documentaries targeted at a specific fanbase will always have their place. Whether the film is about a band or Monopoly or a genre of movies, or even a book, it can ...

My favorite book of all time is “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and I know I’m not alone in that. There are so many phrases from the book that still come to mind, and some that come from the movie, which I ...

Mary Murphy’s Hey Boo often feels more like a celebrity book-club session than a documentary: It centers on a parade of talking-head interviewees (Oprah Winfrey, Tom Brokaw, Rosanne Cash, Wally Lamb, ...

Containing never-before-seen photos and letters, Mary McDonagh Murphy’s documentary “Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird,” explores the renown author’s life and aims to demystify the woman ...

Harper Lee was working as an airline reservations agent in New York City, struggling to write a novel tentatively titled “Atticus,” when a close friend gave her enough money to take time off and ...

Fifty years after its first publication, To Kill A Mockingbird continues to sell almost a million copies each year. Hey Boo: Harper Lee and To Kill a Mockingbird, a documentary film by Mary McDonagh ...

An unremarkable docu about Harper Lee and her single literary masterwork, “Hey, Boo” features what the French call a “structuring absence,” that of Lee herself. She has not granted an interview since ...