It's not even that Mr. Rogers is a hero in Pittsburgh.

He's a God in Pittsburgh.

For instance, the first cab I got into, they said, what are you doing here?

And I said, I'm going to work on a documentary about Mr. Rogers.

And he turned around and he pointed at me and he said, don't screw this up.

Wow.

Okay.

I'm Sean Fettis, the editor and chief of the ringer.

And this is the big picture.

A conversation show with some of the most interesting filmmakers in the world.

Morgan Neville makes movies about intimacy.

His Oscar-winning documentary, 20 feet from Stardom, is about the close distance between

pop music fame and background anonymity.

In best of enemies, it's the wide chasm between two men sitting across from each other.

In his new movie, Won't You Be My Neighbor, Neville shows just how near we could get to

a man on our TV screen.

That man is Fred Rogers, better known to children around the world as Mr. Rogers.

This movie is neither hageography nor history lesson.

It's more of a presentation of philosophy.

Rogers, a Republican pastor, was one of the world's foremost champions of kindness and

decency.

He treated children like peers and made a public television show that spanned decades.

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