Akeelah and the Bee
Tonight year old Akeelah Anderson's lifetime is not easy: her father is dead, and her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the regional gangbangers. She is smart, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Reacting to a threat with the main of her school, Akeelah participates at a parasitic to prevent detention. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her chief requests her to look for instruction from a British professor named Dr. Larabee for its more prestigious regional bee. Akeelah could provide somebody to her community to rally around and be happy with -- but only if she could overcome her insecurities and her home life that is deflecting as the potential for making it all of the way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee looms. She additionally must acquire past Dr. Larabee's demons, and also a field of more experienced and privileged fellow spellers.
Released: 2006-04-28
Genre:
Drama
Duration: 112
min
Country:
United States of America