Gentleman's Agreement with JT Kelley

Another '40s drama, another barn-burning polemic on societal ills. This time, it's Gregory "Atticus Finch" Peck in his younger days solving anti-Semitism by posing as a Jewish journalist. While JT and I find and express every possible way in which that is an uncool thing to do, the movie still succeeds as an emotional gut punch to the American dream as a restrictive clause for WASPs only. This time, the endless moral debates were fascinatingly relevant. It's impressive just how 2019 some of the "this is how to be an ally" speeches are. Not a movie you'd enthusiastically recommend with a bowl of popcorn, but a rightful classic that deserves to be better-remembered today.

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