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Directed by
Doug Atchison Written by
Doug Atchison Cast
Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Curtis Armstrong, J.R. Villarreal [more]
Release Date
• USA: Apr 28, 2006
BoxOffice: $18.8M
Official Website:
Akeelah and the Bee Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG for some language.
Running Time
1 hour, 52 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Spelling Bee Productions Inc., 2929 Productions, Cinema Gypsy Productions, Lions Gate Films, Out of the Blue... Entertainment, Reactor Films, Starbucks Entertainment
Studio Lions Gate Films
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Other Titles
• Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
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Akeelah and the Bee Reviews |
The audience for this slender effort is still in grade school with little new and different to recommend it for anyone older than, say, the age of 12. Anyone beyond that age will be checking their watches to see how much longer this thing will run. My recommendation is to rent the film’s I mentioned earlier – “Spellbound” for its honest look at a real national spell-off and “Bee Season” for a film that has, in its heart, a real love for words. Akeelah and the Bee” lacks both of these qualities. [read review] C
...is a small gem. It’s positive, gentle, and ultimately uplifting without ever making its audience feel overly manipulated. Or at least, no more manipulated that it’s willing to be. There’s some welcome steel to the story that keeps it from being a fairy tale, but doesn’t prevent it from being magical. [read review] 
--Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
...is a wonderful, well-made film that starts out shaky, but then quickly wins you over with its combination of heart and charm. Sure, it often tries too hard to tug at the heartstrings, but you'd have to be fairly cold and cynical not to eventually givein. [read review] 8/10
--Edward Douglas (ComingSoon.net)
...Later in the movie, that device is repeated, producing one of the happiest feelings I can remember having in a theater. Obviously, it's emotional propaganda. But it's just the kind of propaganda our children need. [read review] 
--Wesley Morris (Boston Globe)
I-n-s-p-i-r-a-t-i-o-n-a-l. [read review]
--Michael Rechtshaffen (Hollywod Reporter)
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