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MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Genre: Period Film, Coming-of-Age, Drama
Release Date: October 17, 2008 (USA)
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Summary:
Gina Prince-Bythewood's adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd's novel -The Secret Life of Bees stars Dakota Fanning as Lily, a 14-year-old growing up in a small Southern town in 1964. She is haunted by memories of shooting her mother when she was a young girl. Lily lives with her emotionally distant father, and her best friend is their African-American house... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Dakota Fanning - (Lily Owens)
Jennifer Hudson - (Rosaleen Daise)
Queen Latifah - (August Boatwright)
Sophie Okonedo - (May Boatwright)
Alicia Keys - (June Boatwright)
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Review:
A movie designed to give audiences -- specifically women -- the quintessential "good cry," The Secret Life of Bees springs from the same home-cooked, heartwarming, bittersweet, girl-power primordial ooze that produced genre classics like Continue >>

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