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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The outcry over the recent shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin is another one of those eruptions in American life when you’d love nothing more than to hear what Harper Lee thinks. Or, ...

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 ...

This all started as a documentary. When I was a producer at CBS News, I suggested stories about To Kill a Mockingbird but they were always turned down. My bosses would say, “No interview with Harper ...

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 ...