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Genres:
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Drama
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Actors:
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Max Minghella,
Corey Fischer,
John Evans,
Flora Cross,
Lorri Holt,
Sam Zuckerman,
Joan Mankin,
Piers Mackenzie,
Brian Leonard,
Jamal Thornes,
Kathy McGraw,
Alisha Mullally,
Richard Gere,
Juliette Binoche,
Kate Bosworth
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Duration:
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104 min.
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Rating:
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(5.5/10)119.5
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Plot Summary:
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11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their moving frustrations into furtively channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins conquering spelling bees, what had been a invariable dynamic within the dynasty becomes disrupted; long held secrets turn out, and a latent ecclesiastical yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive shelter Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising development and jarring uncertainty...
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Bee Season
A fragile middle-class family disintegrate when their young daughter's success at spelling bees is interpreted by her religious professor father as divine. Drama starring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche
The 2002 documentary Spellbound thrust an international spotlight onto the American custom of spelling bees - high-pressure competitions, usually involving school kids, with participants entering a knockout tournament where a single wrong letter means elimination and the last child standing takes all.
It's a forum ripe for drama, suspense and state-of-the-nation allegory; hence author Myla Goldberg's hit novel 'Bee Season', now adapted into an earnest, heavy-going film from the directors of acclaimed indie thrillers Suture and The Deep End<...
Lame, dull, unmemorable- don't bother
I was rather disappointed with this film.
I'd like to point out that I tend to enjoy films which focus on decent acting and script, rather than flashy special effects and the like. I like sad themes, interesting characters and relationships, bittersweet humour etc- for example, Little Miss Sunshine, Lost in Translation, Martian Child, Forrest Gump etc. So I really thought I would like this.
Unfortunately there is definitely something missing from the film as a whole. Frankly, it was boring and I found myself clock-watching after the first hour. Films with little plot can sometimes compensate for this by having wonderful characters and a quotable script, but this didn't have those either. I found the characters one-dimensional and they failed to move me, even though it...
Bee Season
Claudia PuigThe haunting family drama Bee Season centers on a young girl who wins spelling bees, but that is just one element in a complex story of family turmoil and the search for spiritual meaning.
Based on the captivating novel by Myla Goldberg, Bee Season is evocative and superbly acted. It doesn't quite manage the shattering emotionality of the novel, but it's an intriguing, if slightly plodding, adaptation.
Directed by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the talented directors of the masterful 2001 thriller The Deep End, Bee Season probes similar territory: a seemingly picture-perfect family fraying at the seams.
At first glance they seem like a close-knit family, but the Naumanns live complex, separate lives in a dark home that holds many secr...
Bee Season
BEE SEASON shows a fondness seeking photographing things that shimmer - letters in the broadcast, crystals. The movie works earnestly to transform unfamiliar concepts of philosophy
Bee Season
Less brazen than McGehee and Siegels spectacularly top-grade coming out Suture, this also comes across, suited for its...
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