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Akeelah and the Bee: Directed by Doug Atchison. With Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Curtis Armstrong. Akeelah, a young gifted girl, comes from a dysfunctional family and is on the verge of quitting school.
Akeelah learns she needs a coach, hers to be in the form of former spelling bee competitor and UCLA English Department Chair Dr. Joshua Larabee, who teaches Akeelah not only the rote memorization of typical spelling bee words, but how to use English in all its glorious facets.
Akeelah and the Bee: Directed by Doug Atchison. With Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Curtis Armstrong. A young girl from South Los Angeles tries to make it to the National Spelling Bee.
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) Parents Guide and Certifications from around the world.
Akeelah and the Bee. The final word spelled by Dylan is logorrhea. This is the winning word from the documentary Spellbound (2002) which tracks several participants in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee in 1999. The first film to be produced by Starbucks Coffee.
Image Awards (NAACP) 2007 Nominee Image Award. Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture. Laurence Fishburne. 2007 Winner Image Award. Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture. Keke Palmer.
Akeelah and the Bee: Directed by Doug Atchison. With Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Curtis Armstrong. Akeelah, a young gifted girl, comes from a dysfunctional family and is on the verge of quitting school.
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Release Date. United States. March 16, 2006 (Cleveland International Film Festival) United States. March 30, 2006 (Philadelphia International Film Festival) United States. April 20, 2006 (Beverly Hills, California, premiere) Canada.
Mr. Welch : So whoever wins the school bee today gets to represent Crenshaw at the district bee next month. Akeelah : Why would anybody want to represent a school where they can't even put doors on the toilet stalls?
