The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Director:
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Tagline:
« Bring Your Girlfriends, Sisters, Mothers and Daughters »
Actors:
Lily Owens
August Boatwright
Rosaleen Daise
June Boatwright
May Boatwright
Genre:
Drama
Rating:
(29’890 votes)
(29’890 votes)
Quotes:
« Lily Owens: If your favorite color is blue, why did you paint the house pink?
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« August Boatwright: [chuckles] That was May's doing. When we went to the paint shop, she latched on to a color called, "Caribbean Pink." She said it made her feel like dancing a Spanish Flamenco. I personally thought it was the tackiest color I had ever seen, but I figured if it could lift May's heart, it was good enough to live in.
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« Lily Owens: That was awfully nice of you.
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« August Boatwright: Well, I don't know. Some things in life, like the color of a house, don't really matter. But lifting someone's heart? Now, that matters.
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« Zach Taylor: Miss August told me about you being here helping out. She didn't mention anything about you being white.
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« Lily Owens: Maybe she didn't notice.
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« Rosaleen Daise: I know you can't understand. Apologizing to those men would have just been a different way of dying. Except I had to live with it
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Trailer:
The Secret Lives of Bees: Trailer #1
Runtime:114 minutes
Plots:
1964. Lily, a lonely teenager, flees from her home and reaches a small town in South Carolina. Once there, she finds herself in the company of the Boatwright sisters who introduce her to a new world.
In 1964 South Carolina, 14-year-old Lily Own is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father T-Ray, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother’s past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters, Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.
A coming-of-age tale for young Lily Owens in the rural, segregated south in 1964 takes a surprising twist when the right to vote lands her and her beloved housekeeper Rosaleen in a perilous situation involving life-threatening conflict. The two manage to wriggle themselves into the home and hearts of the gracious Boatright sisters and end up with more than they expected as they earn their keep from the genteel beekeeping family.
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