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Bee Season
Directed by
Scott McGehee
,
David Siegel
PG-13
2005
1h 44m
Drama
,
Family
5.5
44%
35%
5.1
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Wife and mother Miriam begins a downward emotional spiral as her husband avoids their collapsing marriage by immersing himself in his 11-year-old daughter's quest to become a spelling-bee champion.
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Cast of Bee Season
Richard Gere
Saul
Juliette Binoche
Miriam
Flora Cross
Eliza
Max Minghella
Aaron
Kate Bosworth
Chali
Corey Fischer
National Spelling Bee Pronouncer
Sam Zuckerman
National Spelling Bee Judge
Joan Mankin
Ms. Bergermeyer
Piers Mackenzie
Dr. Morris
Lorri Holt
Ms. Rai
Cynthia Lea Clark
Photographer (uncredited)
Alisha Mullally
Young Miriam
Brian Leonard
Mr. Julien
John Evans
Regional Bee Judge
Kathy McGraw
Regional Bee Pronouncer
Scott McGehee
Director
David Siegel
Director
Naomi Foner
Screenplay
Myla Goldberg
Novel
Rachel Hudgins
Associate Producer
Bee Season Ratings & Reviews
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
This is second-rate Hallstrm, drama plus whimsy that, when rubbed together, creates not friction and fire, but a nubbing-down of both elements.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
No, Bee Season is just plain awful. That's right, awful, A-W-F-U-L, awful, and if that doesn't spell out my feelings succinctly I don't know what will.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Fine directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel (The Deep End) take a detour into mumbo jumbo.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Bee Season is earnest and heartfelt and respectful. And a botch.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Co-directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel, whose visual schemes lent a hypnotic aura to their previous collaborations ... don't find the right balance of story and image this time.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
It's more thoughtfully conceived than most of what passes for filmmaking these days.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
The film succeeds, because both the tale and the young performers (Cross and Max Minghella as Eliza's teenage brother, Aaron) are so compelling.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
Fragmented and obtuse, with characters who fail to resonate.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Tempts with a bit of a buzz, but then can't deliver and becomes more than a bit silly and self-admiring.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
Though Bee Season has flaws beyond Gere's casting, it compels us to look at the things that words and lives are made of, which is no abstract achievement.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
Reflecting Goldberg's virtuoso novel, the film sets up rich dichotomies of what people say and do, and of satisfying the self vs. pleasing the community.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Over the years this actor has become a beguiling silver fox, trickier than he seems, but [Gere] still doesn't have the psychic weight to pull off a role like Saul.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
One of the most unusual portraits of spiritual striving you're likely to see. And for that alone, it's worth your attention.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
The lack of emotion is a bit off-putting at first, but as the story unfolds, we grow to appreciate that the film's detached tone reflects the family dynamics.
Arizona Republic
Kerry Lengel
The intellectual grist is intriguing, but one can't escape the feeling that Bee Season is only skimming the surface of its source material.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
It got waylaid.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
While directed with intelligence and visual flair by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, Bee Season ultimately is undone by the same trait that makes young spelling whizzes insufferable.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Bee Season can spell strongylid but it doesn't know the definition of tension.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
I don't know whether Gere, an avowed Buddhist, took this role to embarrass kabbala faddists like Madonna and Ashton Kutcher, or to see if he could pass for Jewish -- and a scholar! It's a lost cause, in any case.
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