Bee Season

Name: Bee Season
Genre: Drama
Released: November 11, 2005
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Flora Cross, Juliette Binoche, Max Minghella, Richard Gere

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Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: November 11, 2005 | PG-13

Starring: Flora Cross, Juliette Binoche, Max Minghella, Richard Gere

Summary: Bee Season is the kaleidoscopic portrait of a modern American family whose picture-perfect surface conceals an underlying world of secret turmoil. (Fox Searchlight)

Director: David Siegel and Scott McGehee

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 104 min

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Roger Ebert

The performance by Flora Cross is haunting in its seriousness. She doesn't act out; she acts in. Read full review

Claudia Puig

Based on the captivating novel by Myla Goldberg, Bee Season is evocative and superbly acted. Read full review

Ella Taylor

McGehee and Siegel's ornate structure and editing stay just this side of tricky, as does their borderline-goofy use of special effects to make us see the world (and the words) through Eliza's anxious eyes. Read full review

Rene Rodriguez

A drama about dysfunction, spelling bees, mental illness, Hare Krishnas and kaballah. The movie is just as unwieldy as it sounds, except that it also stars Richard Gere. Read full review

Jessica Winter

The mysticism only mystifies; its hieroglyphics are vividly rendered, but Bee Season never manages to spell them out. Read full review

Dallas Observer Melissa Levine

This is inelegant storytelling, and it almost entirely cancels out what's good about the film: Max Minghella, for one thing. The son of director Anthony, he gives a very fresh performance, popping with energy that the other characters seem to drain. Read full review

Kyle Smith

F-A-I-L-U-R-E. Read full review

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KatS

Dec 20, 2005

You don't really get the full meaning of the film until almost the end, so hang in there. In the meantime, you'll enjoy some of the finest acting by the four perfectly casted stars, and an entertaining story. When it ended, it took me a few minutes to piece it all together,and I You don't really get the full meaning of the film until almost the end, so hang in there. In the meantime, you'll enjoy some of the finest acting by the four perfectly casted stars, and an entertaining story. When it ended, it took me a few minutes to piece it all together,and I feel it was about how four people try to find family through a closeness to God. You'll understand what I mean after you've seen it -- it's not obvious. I recommended it to all my friends who aren't "Hollywood only" type of movie goers, and in particular to those who like to discuss movies and bring that discussion into our own real life. I will never forget these touching, true performances. It's a snowball of a movie that gets better, both as the movie progresses, and as I later think about it.… Expand