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 ...

That seemingly inexhaustible new movie subgenre, the spelling bee drama, receives its most conventionally uplifting treatment yet in "Akeelah and the Bee." Framed around the relationship between ...

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 ...

If even a fringe "sport" like ballroom dancing can have its day in cinema sunlight, then why not a mini-renaissance of spelling bee movies? Akeelah ... who has a closet full of yuppie sweaters ...

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 ...

recognise a talent for spelling, and enter her in a school bee - the first rung on a long ladder to the national finals. Impressed, former English professor Dr. Larabee (Fishburne) takes Akeelah ...

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 ...