Akeelah and the bee, Lionsgate, 2929 Productions and Starbucks Entertainment present an Out of the Blue Entertainment and Reactor Films production in association with Cinema Gypsy Productions, Inc. ; produced by Laurence Fishburne, Sid Ganis, Nancy Hult Ganis, Daniel Llewelyn, Michael Romersa ; written and directed by Doug Atchison
Type
Label
Akeelah and the bee, Lionsgate, 2929 Productions and Starbucks Entertainment present an Out of the Blue Entertainment and Reactor Films production in association with Cinema Gypsy Productions, Inc. ; produced by Laurence Fishburne, Sid Ganis, Nancy Hult Ganis, Daniel Llewelyn, Michael Romersa ; written and directed by Doug Atchison
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: PG; for some language
Main title
Akeelah and the bee
Medium
videorecording DVD
Responsibility statement
Lionsgate, 2929 Productions and Starbucks Entertainment present an Out of the Blue Entertainment and Reactor Films production in association with Cinema Gypsy Productions, Inc. ; produced by Laurence Fishburne, Sid Ganis, Nancy Hult Ganis, Daniel Llewelyn, Michael Romersa ; written and directed by Doug Atchison
Runtime
112
Summary
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 will have to overcome her insecurities, her distracting home life, and the knowledge that there is a field of more experienced and privileged fellow spellers
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
resource.variantTitle
Akeelah & the bee
Classification
Contributor
- Romersa, Michael
- Mullen, M. David
- Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961-
- Hult, Nancy
- Young, Warren Alan
- 2929 Productions (Firm)
- Davis, Sharen
- Upton, Mike
- Zigman, Aaron
- Cinema Gypsy Productions
- Kubena, Kent, 1972-
- Out of the Blue Entertainment (Firm)
- Paseornek, Mike
- Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm)
- Sugland, Helen
- Palmer, Keke
- Atchison, Doug
- Burns, Michael, 1958-
- Armstrong, Curtis
- Ortenberg, Tom
- Llewelyn, Daniel
- Ganis, Sid
- Lions Gate Films (Santa Monica, Calif.)
- Bassett, Angela
Genre
Subject
- Children's films
- DVD-Video discs
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Self-esteem in children -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama
- Spelling bees -- Drama
- Feature films
- Escolares -- California -- Los Ángeles -- Teatro
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Amor a sí mismo en los niños (Psicología) -- California -- Los Ángeles -- Teatro
- School children -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama
- Melodrama, American
Content
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor24
- Romersa, Michael
- Mullen, M. David
- Fishburne, Laurence, III, 1961-
- Hult, Nancy
- Young, Warren Alan
- 2929 Productions (Firm)
- Davis, Sharen
- Upton, Mike
- Zigman, Aaron
- Cinema Gypsy Productions
- Kubena, Kent, 1972-
- Out of the Blue Entertainment (Firm)
- Paseornek, Mike
- Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm)
- Sugland, Helen
- Palmer, Keke
- Atchison, Doug
- Burns, Michael, 1958-
- Armstrong, Curtis
- Ortenberg, Tom
- Llewelyn, Daniel
- Ganis, Sid
- Lions Gate Films (Santa Monica, Calif.)
- Bassett, Angela
- Genre6
- Subject11
- Children's films
- DVD-Video discs
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Self-esteem in children -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama
- Spelling bees -- Drama
- Feature films
- Escolares -- California -- Los Ángeles -- Teatro
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Amor a sí mismo en los niños (Psicología) -- California -- Los Ángeles -- Teatro
- School children -- California -- Los Angeles -- Drama
- Melodrama, American
- Content1