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Release Date: 2006

Cast: Tzi Ma, Erica Hubbard, Keke Palmer, J.R. Villarreal, Laurence Fishburne, Julito McCullum, Jeris Lee Poindexter, Angela Bassett, Lee Thompson Young, Sean Michael Afable, Ric Govea, Sahara Garey ...MORE

Cast: Tzi Ma, Erica Hubbard, Keke Palmer, J.R. Villarreal, Laurence Fishburne, Julito McCullum, Jeris Lee Poindexter, Angela Bassett, Lee Thompson Young, Sean Michael Afable, Ric Govea, Sahara Garey, Eddie Steeples, Curtis Armstrong, Sara Niemietz ...LESS

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Akeelah and the Bee is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Doug Atchison. It tells the story of Akeelah Anderson, portrayed by Keke Palmer, an 11-year-old girl who participates in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, her mother, portrayed by Angela Bassett, schoolmates, and also her coach, portrayed by Laurence Fishburne. It also explores issues of education in a low socioeconomic African American community. The film was developed over a period of 10 years by Doug Atchison, the germ of the idea having started after his watching the Scripps National Spelling Bee of 1994 and... MORE

Akeelah and the Bee is a 2006 American drama film written and directed by Doug Atchison. It tells the story of Akeelah Anderson, portrayed by Keke Palmer, an 11-year-old girl who participates in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, her mother, portrayed by Angela Bassett, schoolmates, and also her coach, portrayed by Laurence Fishburne. It also explores issues of education in a low socioeconomic African American community. The film was developed over a period of 10 years by Doug Atchison, the germ of the idea having started after his watching the Scripps National Spelling Bee of 1994 and combined with his experiences spent tutoring disadvantaged students in the area around the University of Southern California, where he attended film school. After four years of trying to secure funding for the film, the documentary film Spellbound came out in 2002 and perhaps, according to one producer, Sid Ganis, facilitated funding. Spellbound features a black girl, Ashley White, from Washington, D.C., in rough parallel to the independent idea developed in Akeelah and the Bee. The film also touched off a brief national interest in spelling bees—2006 Scripps National Spelling Bee was broadcast live LESS