Akeelah and the Bee ( Angela Bassett, GREAT MOVIE 5STAR - eBay (item 310105031834 end time Dec-24-09 11:34:42 PST)


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Format:	DVD	Edition:	Full Frame Edition
Leading Role:	Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne	Rating:	PG
Director:	Doug Atchison	Release Date:	Aug 29, 2006
Genre:	Children & Family	UPC:	031398200017
Sub-Genre:	--	Region:	DVD: 1 (US, CA)
Condition:	Like New

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Movie description
Following in the fine tradition of inspiring inner-city underdog tales like STAND AND DELIVER, and TAKE THE LEAD, Doug Atchison's AKEELAH AND THE BEE is a story of overcoming odds that never descends into empty formula. The narrative centers around the character of Akeelah (Keke Palmer, in a star-making performance), a charming yet insecure 11 year old girl from Los Angeles' gang-ridden South Central district. Upon flipping channels after school one day, she lands on ESPN's coverage of the National Spelling Bee. Having recently become aware of her innate talent in this area, Akeelah cannot help but fantasize about the prospect of being a star of the bee circuit. The tragic problem -- intelligence of this kind is not valued in her community, where skills of athleticism and rapping are coveted far more than school smarts. Though Akeelah attempts to hide her academic acuity behind a rebellious attitude, she cannot resist the temptation to enter her school's spelling bee, at which her stellar performance attracts the attention of her idealistic principal, who pairs her with a mentor, a former professor named Joshua Larabee (the always riveting Laurence Fishburne, who re-embodies the wise iconoclast character he played so well in the chess movie SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER). Meanwhile, Akeelah's strong, practical mother, (played by Angela Bassett, who worked with Fishburne on the Tina Turner biopic WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?) while always supportive of her talented daughter, does not necessarily see the point of spending such time and energy on what will likely amount to a fleeting hobby. Perhaps taking its cue from the surprising popularity of Jeffrey Blitz's quirky documentary SPELLBOUND (2002), which explored spelling prodigies from diverse classes, races, and geographic locations, this drama makes what could be a narrow niche into a universal tale of triumph over adversity.
Credits
Producer:	Dalia Phillips, Daniel Llewellyn, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Paseornek, Michael Romersa, Nancy Hult, Sidney Ganis
Cast:	Angela Bassett, Curtis Armstrong, Eddie Steeples, Erica Hubbard, J.R. Villareal, Julito McCullum, Jumper Lark, Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Lee Thompson Young, Sahara Garey, Sean Michael, Tzi Ma

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Edition:	Full Frame Edition

Editorial reviews
"[T]his feel-gooder revels in its hip-to-be-square hyperliteracy, and neatly exceeds its own PSA-ness..." -- Grade: B+ Entertainment Weekly - Scott Brown (04/28/2006) "[A]n underdog story that manages to inspire without being sappy." New York Times - Dana Stevens (04/28/2006) "Palmer is a natural....There's nothing cynical about Akeelah's story of courage and determination." USA Today - Claudia Puig (04/28/2006) 3 stars out of 5 -- "You'll have a lump in your throat during this heart-tugger..." Total Film - Neil Smith (08/01/2006) "AKEELAH AND THE BEE is most successful in the way it generates tension during the spelling-bee scenes." Sight and Sound - Anna Smith (09/01/2006)

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