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A young girl from South Los Angeles tries to make it to the National Spelling Bee. 4,016 IMDb 7.4 1 h 52 min 2006. PG. Young Adult Audience · Drama · Charming · Emotional. This video is currently unavailable. to watch in your location.
Dec 13, 2011 · Watch the official movie trailer of Akeelah and the Bee, a heartwarming story of a young girl's journey to the National Spelling Bee.
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Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She's smart, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah participates in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences.
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A 2006 academic drama film staring Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett, and it just might be the only Spelling Bee drama out there. Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer) is a middle school-aged black girl from South Los Angeles, trying to cope with her father's death and her stifling environment. She's quite intelligent, but performs ...
Akeelah and the Bee. by Chris Huntley. Akeelah and the Bee is an uplifting, family-oriented film that rises above its “Afternoon Special” subject matter. While treading familiar territory, it dodges most major genre clichés through the creative use of the story’s peripheral characters.
Apr 28, 2006 · Akeelah and the Bee is rated PG for some language—basically a four-letter word or two that seem to have been put into the script simply to avoid a G rating. A precocious boy kisses a girl and ...
Akeelah and the Bee. 72 Metascore. 2006. 1 hr 52 mins. Drama, Family. PG. Watchlist. An underachieving young student from inner-city Los Angeles makes the grade as a national spelling-bee ...
