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The Secret Life of Bees is a 2008 American drama film adapted from the 2001 novel of the same name by Sue Monk Kidd. Starring Queen Latifah , Dakota Fanning , Jennifer Hudson , Alicia Keys , Sophie Okonedo , and Paul Bettany , the film was directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and produced by Lauren Shuler Donner and Will Smith , with Jada Pinkett ...
Oct 17, 2008 · A 2008 drama film based on Sue Monk Kidd's novel about a teenage girl's search for her mother's past in South Carolina. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks, and more.
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Nov 8, 2001 · The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of a 14-year-old white girl, Lily Melissa Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. She lives in a house with her abusive father, whom she refers to as T. Ray.
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The Secret Life of Bees is a novel by the American author Sue Monk Kidd. Set in 1964, it is a coming-of-age story about loss, betrayal, and the interracial landscape of the civil rights era of the American South. The book received critical acclaim and was a New York Times bestseller.
A young girl runs away from her abusive father and finds a new family and a new identity at a honey farm in South Carolina. She learns about beekeeping, racism, and her mother's past from August Boatwright and her sisters, the Daughters of Mary.
Set in South Carolina during 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of a fourteen year old white girl, Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed.
Jan 28, 2003 · In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their South Carolina peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers.
