A movie designed to give audiences - specifically women - the quintessential "good cry,"
The Secret Life of Bees springs from the same home-cooked, heartwarming, bittersweet, girl-power primordial ooze that produced genre classics like
Fried Green Tomatoes and
The Color Purple. Dakota Fanning stars as Lily Owens, a 14-year-old living in a small Southern town, who is haunted by the guilt of accidentally shooting her mother when she was a little girl. When her emotionally distant father (Paul Bettany) goes one step too far during a fight, she sets off with their black maid (Jennifer Hudson) - who recently tried to take advantage of the just passed...
Released:
2008
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
110 mins