Akeelah and the bee, Lionsgate, 2929 Productions and Starbucks Entertainment present an Out of the Blue Entertainment and Reactor Films production in association with Cinema Gypsy Productions, Inc. ; produced by Laurence Fishburne, Sidney Ganis, Nancy Hult, Daniel Llewelyn, Michael Romersa ; written and directed by Doug Atchison
Type
Label
Akeelah and the bee, Lionsgate, 2929 Productions and Starbucks Entertainment present an Out of the Blue Entertainment and Reactor Films production in association with Cinema Gypsy Productions, Inc. ; produced by Laurence Fishburne, Sidney Ganis, Nancy Hult, Daniel Llewelyn, Michael Romersa ; written and directed by Doug Atchison
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: PG; for some language
Main title
Akeelah and the bee
Responsibility statement
Lionsgate, 2929 Productions and Starbucks Entertainment present an Out of the Blue Entertainment and Reactor Films production in association with Cinema Gypsy Productions, Inc. ; produced by Laurence Fishburne, Sidney Ganis, Nancy Hult, Daniel Llewelyn, Michael Romersa ; written and directed by Doug Atchison
Runtime
112
Summary
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 is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate 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 Dr. Larabee, an English professor, 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. First Akeelah has to overcome her insecurities, her distracting home life, and the knowledge that there is a field of more experienced and privileged fellow spellers
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
Classification
Contributor
- Romersa, Michael
- Ma, Tzi
- Mullen, M. David
- Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961-
- Hult, Nancy
- Starbucks Entertainment (Firm)
- Reactor Films
- 2929 Productions (Firm)
- Davis, Sharen
- Zigman, Aaron
- Cinema Gypsy Productions
- Young, Warren Alan, 1965-
- Out of the Blue Entertainment (Firm)
- Young, Lee Thompson, 1984-2013
- Lion's Gate Films (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Palmer, Keke
- Lions Gate Home Entertainment
- Atchison, Doug
- Armstrong, Curtis
- Llewelyn, Daniel
- Ganis, Sid
- Farr, Glenn
- Bassett, Angela
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Subject
- Children's films
- DVD-Video discs
- Spanish language materials
- Melodrama -- Feature
- Drama
- Fiction
- Melodrama, American -- Videorecordings
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Melodrama
- Self-esteem in children -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama
- Spelling bees -- Drama
- Feature films
- Youth -- Feature
- Children's -- Feature
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
- School children -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama
- Melodrama, American
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Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor23
- Romersa, Michael
- Ma, Tzi
- Mullen, M. David
- Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961-
- Hult, Nancy
- Starbucks Entertainment (Firm)
- Reactor Films
- 2929 Productions (Firm)
- Davis, Sharen
- Zigman, Aaron
- Cinema Gypsy Productions
- Young, Warren Alan, 1965-
- Out of the Blue Entertainment (Firm)
- Young, Lee Thompson, 1984-2013
- Lion's Gate Films (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Palmer, Keke
- Lions Gate Home Entertainment
- Atchison, Doug
- Armstrong, Curtis
- Llewelyn, Daniel
- Ganis, Sid
- Farr, Glenn
- Bassett, Angela
- Genre10
- Subject17
- Children's films
- DVD-Video discs
- Spanish language materials
- Melodrama -- Feature
- Drama
- Fiction
- Melodrama, American -- Videorecordings
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Melodrama
- Self-esteem in children -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama
- Spelling bees -- Drama
- Feature films
- Youth -- Feature
- Children's -- Feature
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
- School children -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama
- Melodrama, American
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- Composer1
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- resource.editorofmovingimagework1
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