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Bee Season

Actor(s): Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche, Flora Cross, Max Minghella
Director(s): David Siegel, Scott McGehee
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Movie Details

MPAA Rating: PG-13
Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Sexual Situations
Movie Release: 2005
DVD Release: 04/04/2006
Format: DVD - Color,Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned
Audio Tracks: English, Spanish
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 44 mins
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Total Copies: 27
Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama, Religious Drama, Family Drama, Coming-of-Age

DVD Synopsis

Adapted from the novel by Myla Goldberg, Bee Season tells the story of a family whose turmoil is brought to the surface by a young girl's unexpected talent. Eleven-year-old Eliza (Flora Cross) is the invisible element of her family unit -- her mother and father (played by Juliette Binoche and Richard Gere) are both consumed with work and busy avoiding their faltering marriage. Her brother, praised for musical genius, is wrapped up in his own adolescent life. Eliza ignites not only a spark that makes her visible but one that sets into motion a revolution in her family dynamic when she wins a spelling bee. Finding an emotional outlet in the power of words and in the spiritual mysticism that he sees at work in her unparalleled gift, Eliza's father pours all of his energy into helping his daughter become spelling bee champion, further distancing himself from his wife and son. A religious studies professor, he sees the opportunity as not only a distraction from his life but as an answer to his own crisis of faith. His vicarious path to God, real or imagined, leads to an obsession with Eliza's success and he begins teaching her secrets of the Kabbalah. Now preparing for the National Spelling Bee, and with her family spreading further and further into four separate directions, Eliza looks on as a new secret of her family's hidden turmoil seems to be revealed with each new word she spells. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide

Actors

Richard Gere - Saul Naumann
Juliette Binoche - Miriam Naumann
Flora Cross - Eliza Naumann
Max Minghella - Aaron Naumann

Member Movie Reviews

Teri K. (toribo) wrote on 8/23/2009...

0 of 2 member(s) found this review helpful.

Entire family felt as though we missed half the movie and found it difficult to understand. Characters only 1/2 developed and story line that starts somewhere in themiddle and ends even more confusing. Good movie to watch if you plan to sleep through it.

Duane S. (superpoet) from FORT WORTH, TX wrote on 7/25/2008...

1 of 2 member(s) found this review helpful.

This is the story of a father(Gere) and daughter(Cross) who start on the road towards the National Spelling Bee and how his obsessive involvement with her winning the Spelling Bee changes the entire family. She is a savant when it comes to spelling words; and her dad is convinced she has a God given gift of psychic ability; and wants her to become a mystic in the Jewish Kabala religion. Her mother has a long held secret of kleptomania she has been keeping from the family; and she ends up in a mental institution at the end of the film. The brother becomes a Hindu which angers the father.