Akeelah and the Bee

2006·Movie
1h 52min
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About

Changing the world... one word at a time.

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 finala. As she gets to know her fellow competitors, Akeelah realizes that coming first isn't everything in life.

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Crew

Directed by:
Doug Atchison, M. David Mullen, Rodney Allen Hooks
Written by:
Doug Atchison
Produced by:
Nancy Hult Ganis, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Llewelyn
Composed by:
Aaron Zigman

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