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Drama · Lions Gate Films
Akeelah and the Bee
Changing the world... one word at a time.
Synopsis
11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she decides to enter the competition, despite her classmates' derision and the antipathy of her mother Tanya. Thanks to the efforts of her teacher Dr. Larabee, she reaches the finals. As she gets to know her fellow competitors, Akeelah realizes that coming first isn't everything in life.
- Director
- Doug Atchison
- Written by
- Doug Atchison
- Music
- Aaron Zigman
- Studio
- Lions Gate Films
- Released
- 28 April 2006
- Genres
- Drama
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