The Secret Life of Bees
![]() | Overall Rating: 4.31/5 (128 votes cast) Dakota Fanning and Jennifer Hudson star as two friends who run away from home in order to solve the mystery surrounding one of their mothers in this adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's best-selling coming-of-age novel, The Secret Life of Bees. Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo and Alicia Keys co-star in picture as three sisters who take the two girls in and teach them to care for and raise bees. Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball) provides the adaptation as well as the direction for the Overbrook Entertainment production. |
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By Michael Rechtshaffen (THR.com)
Sue Monk Kidd's acclaimed, Civil Rights-era novel, "The Secret Life of Bees," about a troubled South Carolina teen who finds redemption in an unlikely place, has been turned into an affecting ensemble piece that's ...
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Film Review: The Secret Life of Bees
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Sue Monk Kidd's acclaimed, Civil Rights-era novel, "The Secret Life of Bees," about a troubled South Carolina teen who finds redemption in an unlikely place, has been turned into an affecting ensemble piece that's ...
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The Secret Life of Bees Cast & Crew
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Dakota Fanning as
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Queen Latifah as
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Alicia Keys as
June Boatwright -
Paul Bettany as
T. Ray Owens - Sophie Okonedo as
May Boatwright
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Genres/Tags: Movie-Drama, Adventure, Movie-New-Online
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THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, based on the New York Times best selling novel and set in South Carolina in 1964, is the moving tale of Lily Owens (Fanning) a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother (Burton). To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father (Bettany), Lily flees with Rosaleen (Hudson), her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters (Latifah, Okonedo and Keys), Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping. |||| Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina - a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introuced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna.
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