The Secret Life of Bees (2008)

The Secret Life of Bees

Haunted by her mother's death, 14-year-old Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning) escapes her dreary life on her father's farm and heads to Tiburon, S.C., with friend and caregiver Rosaleen Daise (Jennifer Hudson), spawning a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Set amid the hotbed of racial tensions in the 1960s South, writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood's touching drama is based on Sue Monk Kidd's best-selling novel of the same name.- Netflix

set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother... more | full synopsis - www.imdb.com

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"[Dakota] displays the breadth this role requires and a depth that transforms it... [Sophie's] May is the heart of the film, because her own heart is so open... Nobody can beam like Latifah. If ever there was a woman born to be christened Queen, - www.foxsearchlight.com

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The Secret Life of Bees is a 2002 historical novel by American author Sue Monk Kidd. It received much critical acclaim and was a New York Times bestseller. It was nominated for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction and was adapted into a 2008 film by Gin - en.wikipedia.org

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