Anna Paquin
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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.
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| Homepage | http://gooddeedentertainment.com/tellittothebees |
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| Release Date | 2018-09-09 |
| Runtime | 1h 46m |
| Directors | Annabel Jankel, Jamie Hetherington, Raluca Staruiala, Caroline Grebbell, Robyn Henderson, Steph Bryant |
| Producers | Annabel Jankel, Nik Bower, Nick Hill, Daisy Allsop, Sean Wheelan, Hannah Leader, Laure Vaysse, Lizzie Francke, Anthony Muir, Ross Sellwood, Deepak Nayar, Brenda Finster, James Cotton, Sunny Vohra, Ross McKenzie, Alison Owen |
| Writers | Henrietta Ashworth, Jessica Ashworth, Fiona Shaw |
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.
— beyondthecineramadome