The Secret Life of Bees
- 2008
- US
- 109 min
- 12A
- Directed by: Gina Prince-Bythewood
- Written by: Gina Prince-Bythewood, Sue Monk Kidd
- Cast: Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Paul Bettany, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo, Tristan Wilds, Hilarie Burton
- Website: www.secretlifeofbeesmovie.co.uk
Based on Sue Monk Kidd's best selling novel and set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the moving tale of Lily Owens (Fanning) a grief stricken 14 year-old girl who finds solace for her dead mother in the arms of the local caregiver (Hudson) and the fiercely independent bee keeping Boatwright sisters (Latifah, Keys and Okonedo).
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Paul Bettany
27 Nov 2008
Paul Bettany has rediscovered the joy of acting. Over the coming months, he’ll be seen playing a racist peach farmer in America’s Deep South for The Secret Life of Bees and then a royal adviser and future prime minister to Emily Blunt’s queen in The…
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