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Bee Season

Bee Season (2005)

Family, Drama | United States, Germany

Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel

TG4 Ireland | Saturday 16 April 2022 | 17:00

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Saturday 16 April 2022 17:00

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Rating: 5.5/10

User rating: 6.6/10
(13 votes)

SYNOPSIS

11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty...

Actors

Voice: Patricia R. Floyd, Timothy Gulan, Betsy Hogg, Jennifer Perito, Kristin Reeves, Rose Stockton, Marlon Suson, Michael Tommer

Writer: Myla Goldberg, Naomi Foner

Producer: Albert Berger, Rachel Hudgins

RUNTIME: 104 min

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