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Bee Season

Country: USA, Language: English, 104 mins

  • Director: Scott McGehee; David Siegel
  • Writer: Myla Goldberg; Naomi Foner
  • Producer: Albert Berger; Rachel Hudgins

CGiii Comment

Gay director directs a well-made, well-acted, inconsequential piece of nonsense.


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The(ir) Blurb...

11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty...

Cast & Characters

Richard Gere as Saul;
Juliette Binoche as Miriam;
Flora Cross as Eliza;
Max Minghella as Aaron;
Kate Bosworth as Chali;
Corey Fischer as National Spelling Bee Pronouncer;
Sam Zuckerman as National Spelling Bee Judge;
Joan Mankin as Ms. Bergermeyer;
Piers Mackenzie as Dr. Morris;
Lorri Holt as Ms. Rai