Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah participates in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal ...

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 ...

It’s easy to assume that winning a spelling ... Akeelah and the Bee was how the strength of community and love can help one person accomplish enormous feats. The whole family will love this ...

She’s just a good speller. The story of Akeelah’s ascent to the finals of the National Spelling Bee makes an uncommonly good movie, entertaining and actually inspirational, and with a few tears along ...

Akeelah is dropped into the school’s first spelling bee, and quickly finds herself on a path that leads to the national competition. Of course, as with any competitive type movie, the star has ...

I need to talk about the Black-cast family movie’s important message about the community playing a huge role in Akeelah’s success. It’s easy to assume that winning a spelling bee is all ...

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Studio info: Lions Gate, 112 mins. Akeelah and the Bee is the kind of movie you want to recommend to every 11-year-old you know. Akeelah has brains but little motivation until her teachers urge ...

Spelling bees are all the buzz ... in one of those casino scenes the James Bond movies used to have. To its credit, Akeelah and the Bee is truly interested in celebrating excellence.

the film only inspires when Akeelah takes to the stage for the spelling bees. There, the suspense is palpable despite the certainty of the outcome, and the kind of affectionate, geeky-kid humour ...