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The Secret Life of Bees

The Secret Life of Bees

Bring Your Girlfriends, Sisters, Mothers and Daughters
  • We should start an all-girl band!

The second movie this week set in 1964 in the USA, this chick-flick takes a look at racial tension in the South. We follow events through the eyes of a 14-year-old white girl, who accidentally killed her mother 10 years ago. After her beloved nanny is arrested and put in hospital, she secretes her out and they go on the run. They end up in a small town where the honey her mother used to love, is made. They are taken in by the honey makers: three very different black sisters, and this is where the story proper starts, as the gals try to sort out their lives while trying not to attract attention which would lead to her father finding where she is. Take tissues.


110 minutes, Mature Accompaniment under 13 (Language, Violence)
Adventure, Drama, Female interest.

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Credits
Cast
Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo, Paul Bettany, Hilarie Burton
Director
Gina Prince-Bythewood
ScreenplayGina Prince-Bythewood, from the novel by Sue Monk Kidd
MusicMark Isham
CinematographyRogier Stoffers
EditingTerilyn A. Shropshire
Sound formatsDolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
SoundtrackNot available
Made in2008
Produced byFox Searchlight Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment, Donners' Company

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FPB Report (SA)
GenreDrama
LanguageSome
NudityNone
SexNone
ViolenceSome
PrejudicePart of plot
BlasphemyMild
Drug abuseNone
CommentsA strong drama set against racial tensions in South Carolina in 1964.
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.


Ratings
Scale (Max)20
South African Media
Cape Argus/The StarLara de Matos10
Die BurgerJeanne Calitz10
Cape TimesCarina Chocano5
The CitizenNatalie Bosman quote icon 14
24.comIvan Sadler quote icon 10
International Media
Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert quote icon 18
eye Weekly (Canada)Jason Anderson quote icon 5
ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli quote icon 18
ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs quote icon 12
Metacritic.com32 critics11
RottenTomatoes.com124 critics12
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer quote icon 11
Internet (IMDB)1963 Netizens quote icon 14
Average .. 58%12


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