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11 months ago 03rd Dec 14:36
The Secret Life of Bees is the latest movie from direct Gina Prince Blythewood as she adapts the popular Sue Monk Kidd novel.
The book and film follows young girl Lily who flees from her abusive father and memories with an employee of her father's only to be taken in by the Boatwright Sisters.
Despite the strong cast of Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah and Jennifer Hudson tit took the director six years to get the project off the ground.
Lily, a lonely teenager haunted by the guilt of her role in the accidental shooting death of her mother, escapes the peach farm owned by her embittered and widowed father (Paul Bettany), who shows her neither kindness nor compassion.
Fanning portrays a teenager struggling with typical pubescent angst, but her challenges are compounded by her feelings of self-loathing and sorrow, spurred on by the death of her mother.
The Secret Life of Bees follows this young girl as she tries to discover if she is lovable as she dreams of becoming a writer. But as an apprentice beekeeper her relationship with the Boatwright sisters deepens and she realises that she has found her true home.
Rosaleen, an employee of Lily's father T.Ray,also has her own struggles as she desperately wants to be acknowledged as a human being and was beaten and jailed for trying to register to vote.
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