How did I miss this movie? I really don’t know how this one slipped passed me. With a cast full of some of my favorite actors The Secret Life of Bees (2008) was so fun to watch. Maybe fun isn’t the right word? The Secret Life of Bees takes place in South Carolina in 1964, and isn’t really an uplifting movie.
Dakota Fanning (Dreamer, I am Sam, Push, The Runaways) plays 14 year old Lily. She is an only child trying to come to terms with her mother’s death and an emotionally detached father. Paul Bettany (Priest, A Beautiful Mind, The Tourist) plays T. Ray, Lily’s father. As much as I like him I have to say he was pretty frightening and hard to watch. This means he did an excellent job! Lily and her caretaker Rosaleen end up running away from home. They go to South Carolina where they stay with three sisters who own a bee farm and make honey.
Queen Latifah (Chicago, Just Wright, Mad Money) plays August, the main beekeeper who lets Lily and Rosaleen stay with them. This movie is full of wonderful life lessons that Lily learns while staying with August and her sisters. Even though The Secret Life of Bees deals with difficult subject matter and a difficult time in the United States of America it is a very well written story and worth watching.
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