Movie
Tell It to the Bees
Overview
Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.
Details
- Release date
- 2019-05-03
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Taking a Line for a Walk Productions, Riverstone Pictures, Archface Films, Cayenne Film Company, Reliance Entertainment Productions 8
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Anna Paquin as Jean Markham
- Holliday Grainger as Lydia Weekes
- Emun Elliott as Robert Weekes
- Steven Robertson as Jim
- Lauren Lyle as Annie Stock
- Gregor Selkirk as Charlie Weekes
- Kate Dickie as Pam Stock
- Billy Boyd as Older Charlie (voice)
- Euan Mason as John
- Zara Howell as Chanting Girl 2
- Violet Fluendy as Chanting Girl 3
- Kaidon McGrath as Bully Boy
Crew
- Annabel Jankel - Director
- Henrietta Ashworth - Screenplay
- Jessica Ashworth - Screenplay
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