Tell It to the Bees (2019)

Cast

Anna Paquin

Jean Markham

Holliday Grainger

Lydia Weekes

Emun Elliott

Robert Weekes

Steven Robertson

Jim

Lauren Lyle

Annie Stock

Gregor Selkirk

Charlie Weekes

Kate Dickie

Pam Stock

Billy Boyd

Older Charlie (voice)

Euan Mason

John

Zara Howell

Chanting Girl 2

About Tell It to the Bees

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.

Popularity

4.7

Release

May 3, 2019

Genres

Romance, Drama

Director: Annabel Jankel

Writer: Henrietta Ashworth, Jessica Ashworth

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Reviews (1)

beyondthecineramadome

Jun 20, 2022

3.0

Full review: https://www.tinakakadelis.com/beyond-the-cinerama-dome/2021/12/28/kept-you-like-a-secret-tell-it-to-the-bees-review Adapted from Fiona Shaw’s book of the same name, _Tell it to the Bees_ is a historical romance centering on a relationship between two women. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) is a new doctor in a town in Scotland in the 1950s. She begins a friendship with a woman named Lydia Weekes (Holliday Grainger) after Lydia’s son Charlie (Gregor Selkirk) develops a fascination with Jean’s bees. Lydia is married to an abusive man (Emun Elliott) and their marriage is falling apart. In Jean, Lydia and Charlie find a supportive and caring person to lean on.

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