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Akeelah and the Bee |
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Genre
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Drama,
Urban Drama,
Childhood Drama.
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Year
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2006 |
Director
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Doug Atchison.
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Actors
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Laurence Fishburne,
Angela Bassett,
Keke Palmer,
Curtis Armstrong,
Tzi Ma,
Lee Thompson Young,
J.R. Villareal,
Sahara Garey,
Sean Michael Afable,
Erica Hubbard,
Julito McCullum,
Dalia Phillips,
Kahlil Ashanti,
John A. Ausick,
Jacques Bailly,
Wolfgang Bodison,
Corina Boettger,
Janet Borrus,
Katie L. Brown,
Shyann Chatman,
Jmeka Cherrel,
Chloé Conroy,
Brittany Elizabeth Curran,
Austin Herrera Davis,
Eric Don,
Marcus Hawkins Dungey,
Bonita Friedericy,
Sid Ganis,
Zachary Gardner,
Lee Garlington,
Mason Green,
Marjorie Harris,
Fay Hauser,
Amirah Hawkins,
George Hornedo,
Jessy J. Hwang,
Krysten Leigh Jones,
Julia Kelleher,
Maddy Kloss,
Keshell Lucas,
Jeff Marlow,
Katie Kerwin McCrimmon,
Sara Niemietz,
Lance Norling,
Katie Olson,
Jack Ong,
Jason Ortenberg,
John Oxenreiter,
Biplab Panda,
Jeris Poindexter,
Alexandra Rieger,
Lauren Sanchez,
Caroline J. Smith,
Neil Soni,
Eddie Steeples,
Alexander Christian Stephans,
Todd Wagner,
Craig Wasson.
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File
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Runtime: |
107:00 |
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dvd-rip / xvid |
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691.22 Mb |
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Storyline:
A young girl learns to believe in herself and value her intelligence in this critically-acclaimed, family-friendly drama. Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer) is an 11-year-old being raised by her mother, Tanya (Angela Bassett), who was left on her own after the death of her husband. While Akeelah is a very bright girl, she's hardly a star student and seems afraid of acting like a bookworm around her friends and classmates. However, Akeelah's teacher sees genuine potential in her student and encourages her to enter the school's spelling bee, convinced Akeelah has the brains and the talent to win. Akeelah applies herself and emerges victorious in the local competition, but discovers the going gets tougher when she goes to a statewide bee, studying for the regionals under the aegis of strict English teacher Dr. Larabee (Laurence Fishburne), who consents to act as her coach A college professor who was a spelling-bee champ as a child, Larabee is a stubborn taskmaster who questions Akeelah's ability and commitment, but in time he develops a respect for his pupil and helps her prove her talent as she climbs the ladder to the National Spelling Bee. Meanwhile, Tanya feels intimidated when she finds the contests are dominated by children from wealthy families and privileged backgrounds, and argues that the competition may not be in Akeelah's best interest, believing instead that homework should be the one and only priority in Akeelah's life. It soon becomes apparent that if Akeelah has any intention of entering the national spelling bee championships in Washington, D.C., she will not do so with Tanya's permission or blessing. This marks the first onscreen reunion of Bassett and Fishburne since theirAcademy Award-nommed performances as Ike Turner and Tina Turner in Brian Gibson's 1993 biopic, What's Love Got to Do with It. |
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