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// Films - The Secret Life of Bees

Movie Details 
Release Date: October 6, 2008
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Writer: Gina Prince-Bythewood (Based on the novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd)
Starring: Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo, Tristan Wilds
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 114 min
MPAA Rating: PG- 13
Official Website: click here
Quotes: Not Available

 

» Synopsis
Based on the New York Times best selling novel and set in South Carolina in 1964, is the moving tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, 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, Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.

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» Dakota's character
Lily Owens is a 14 year old girl who grew up as an abused child. She accidentally killed her mother as a toddler, and has felt guilty about it all her life. She and her housekeeper run away from home to a friendly home owned by May, August and June Boatwright. They temporarily take her in where she works as a beekeeper.

» Dakota's Reviews
"Dakota Fanning comes of age in "The Secret Life of Bees" and in the somewhat similar but less successful "Hounddog." She's not a kid anymore. She has always been a good actress, and she is only growing deeper and better. I expect her to make the transition from child to woman with the same composure and wisdom that Jodie Foster demonstrated. Here she plays a plucky, forthright and sometimes sad and needy young teen with the breadth this role requires and a depth that transforms it."
- Roger Ebert

"Fanning may look 14, but perhaps because she's been playing precocious kids for so long, she still acts younger, without the sensual curiosity of the book's heroine. Lily's romance with a black teenager, Zachary (Tristan Wilds), should be incendiary, but it falls flat, and her connection to the death of her mother is a Big Event that haunts the movie far too mechanically."
- EW

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