The secret life of bees

Resource Information

The work The secret life of bees represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Portland Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The secret life of bees

Statement of responsibility

Fox Searchlight Pictures presents ; written for the screen and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood ; produced by Lauren Shuler Donner [and others] ; an Overbrook Entertainment/Donners' Company production, a Gina Prince-Bythewood film

Creator

• Secret life of bees (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Hudson, Jennifer, 1981-
• Hernandez, Sandra
• Isham, Mark
• Keys, Alicia
• Fanning, Dakota, 1994-
• Kidd, Sue Monk
• Okonedo, Sophie
• Burton, Hilarie
• Bettany, Paul, 1971-
• Parker, Nate, 1979-
• Prince-Bythewood, Gina
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
• Overbrook Entertainment (Firm)
• Fox Searchlight Pictures
• Queen Latifah, 1970-
• Shropshire, Terilyn A
• Shuler-Donner, Lauren
• Donners' Company (Firm)
• Stoffers, Rogier
• Wilds, Tristan
• Young, Warren Alan

Actor

• Okonedo, Sophie
• Keys, Alicia
• Fanning, Dakota, 1994-
• Hudson, Jennifer, 1981-
• Parker, Nate, 1979-
• Bettany, Paul, 1971-
• Queen Latifah, 1970-

Screenwriter

• Prince-Bythewood, Gina

Director

• Prince-Bythewood, Gina

Producer

• Shuler-Donner, Lauren

Subject

• Abused teenagers -- Southern States -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Abejas -- Estados del Sur (Estados Unidos) -- Teatro
• Abused teenagers
• Abused teenagers -- Southern States -- Drama
• Adventure -- Feature
• African American sisters
• African American sisters -- Southern States -- Drama
• Beekeepers
• Beekeepers -- Southern States -- Drama
• Beekeepers -- Southern States -- Drama
• Coming-of-age films
• Coming-of-age films
• Coming-of-age films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Film adaptations
• Film adaptations
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Films for the hearing impaired
• French language materials
• Kidd, Sue Monk
• Kidd, Sue Monk -- Film adaptations
• Niños maltratados -- Estados del Sur (Estados Unidos) -- Teatro
• Race relations
• Southern States
• United States
• United States -- Race relations -- Drama
• United States -- Race relations -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Coming-of-age films
• Adventure
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Film adaptations
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Teatro
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father T-Ray, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters, Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping

Cataloging source

BKX

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Rogier Stoffers ; production designer, Warren Alan Young ; edited by Terilyn A. Shropshire ; costume designer, Sandra Hernandez ; music by Mark Isham

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic material and some violence

Language note

English or dubbed Spanish dialogue with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Queen Latifah (August Boatwright); Dakota Fanning (Lily Owens); Jennifer Hudson (Rosaleen); Alicia Keys (June Boatwright); Sophie Okonedo (May Boatwright); Nate Parker; Paul Bettany (T. Ray Owens), Tristan Wilds, Hilarie Burton

Runtime

110

Target audience

adolescent

Technique

live action