The Secret Life of Bees

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The Secret Life of Bees is a 2008 coming-of-age drama film, based on Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, that follows a young girl in 1960s South Carolina who finds refuge with a group of beekeeping sisters amid racial and personal turmoil.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf coming-of-age film
drama film
film
authorOfSourceMaterial Sue Monk Kidd
basedOn The Secret Life of Bees
surface form: "The Secret Life of Bees (novel)"
castMember Alicia Keys
Dakota Fanning
Hilarie Burton
Jennifer Hudson
Nate Parker
Paul Bettany
Queen Latifah
Sophie Okonedo
Tristan Wilds
cinematographyBy Rogier Stoffers
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: "United States"
director Gina Prince-Bythewood
distributor Searchlight Pictures
surface form: "Fox Searchlight Pictures"
editedBy Terilyn A. Shropshire
filmingLocation North Carolina
genre coming-of-age
drama
hasTheme forgiveness
racial injustice
search for identity
mainCharacter August Boatwright
June Boatwright
Lily Owens
May Boatwright
Rosaleen Daise
T. Ray Owens
musicBy Mark Isham
narrativeFocus coming of age
female friendship
mother–daughter relationships
racism in the United States
originalLanguage English
producer James Lassiter
Joe Pichirallo
Lauren Shuler Donner
Will Smith
productionCompany Searchlight Pictures
surface form: "Fox Searchlight Pictures"

Overbrook Entertainment
The Donners' Company
releaseDate 2008-10-17
releaseYear 2008
runtimeMinutes 114
screenwriter Gina Prince-Bythewood
settingPlace South Carolina
United States of America
surface form: "United States"
settingTime 1964

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The Secret Life of Bees basedOn The Secret Life of Bees
this entity surface form: "The Secret Life of Bees (novel)"
Jennifer Hudson film The Secret Life of Bees
Dakota Fanning notableWork The Secret Life of Bees

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