The secret life of bees
(2008)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/DRAMA/SECRET

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/DRAMA/SECRET Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2008]
©2008
EDITION
[Widescreen format]
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
9786312696049, 024543556329
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from container

Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand in mother for Lilly. Rosaleen insults some of the biggest racists in their town. Lily and Rosaleen run away to a town Lily believes that her mother once lived in. They go to live with the three Boatwright sisters on their honey farm. She finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping

Based on the novel by Sue Monk Kidd

Originally released as a motion picture in 2008

Includes both theatrical version and director's extended cut

Includes theatrical version, director's extended cut, deleted scenes, featurettes, and commentaries

Director of photography, Rogier Stoffers ; editor, Terilyn A. Shropshire ; music, Mark Isham

Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo

MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic material and some violence

DVD; Dolby digital 5.1 surround in English; Dolby digital surround in Spanish; region 1

English or Spanish dialogue; English, French, or Spanish subtitles

Closed-captioned

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