Akeelah and the bee

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Call Number: Youth-DVD Movies Akeelah
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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Special features: Making of 'Akeelah and the bee'; Doug and Keke: two peas in a pod; Inside the mind of Akeelah; Gag reel; Deleted scenes; Trailers.
Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Curtis Armstrong, J.R. Villarreal, Sean Michael, Sahara Garey, Lee Thompson Young.
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.
DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Great submitted by LuckyDuck on June 16, 2012, 11:02pm Great movie!

truly inspirational submitted by smgop on July 17, 2013, 8:24pm This was a great movie - wonderful heart swelling piece.

An aside - for those of us who were teenagers in the 80's, it is hard to conceive of Curtis Armstrong playing a principal! :)

akeelah and the bee submitted by hcf on July 28, 2014, 4:07pm great story for families with lots of spelling

akeela and the bee submitted by sandri on August 29, 2018, 7:03pm truly inspirational

cool submitted by kwinokur on August 19, 2019, 10:01am learn how to spell with different things.

:) submitted by angie. on August 22, 2021, 8:43pm really good! inspirational