Movie: Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

“Eleven year-old Akeelah Anderson’s life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She’s smart, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school’s principal, Akeelah participates in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from an English professor named Dr. Larabee for the more prestigious regional bee. As the possibility of making it all the way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee looms, Akeelah could provide her community with someone to rally around and be proud of — but only if she can overcome her insecurities and her distracting home life. She also must get past Dr. Larabee’s demons, and a field of more experienced and privileged fellow spellers. Written by Shannon Patrick Sullivan {shannon@mun.ca}”

  • Director: Doug Atchison
  • Release Date: 28 April 2006 (USA)
  • Run Time: USA:112 min | Argentina:112 min
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Drama , Family
  • MPAA: Rated PG for some language.

Tagline: Changing the world… one word at a time.

Trivia: The final word spelled by Dylan is logorrhea. This is the winning word from the documentary Spellbound (2002/I) which tracks several participants in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bell in 1999.

Goofs: Factual errors: On Akeelah’s spelling test with a grade of 100%, word 3 is spelled “bacause”.

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