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The Secret Life of Bees.
GreenCine Daily — ... , a family drama based on the bestselling novel by Sue Monk Kidd, chugs pleasantly into a television special tailored for the crossover female market, while dropping tantalizing hints that it has more on its mind than a benign tale of substitute mothering across the color line," writes Ella Taylor in the Voice. ...

Weekend Movie Forecast: W. or What Just Happened
Gothamist — ... There's also The Secret Life of Bees, starring Dakota Fanning as a 14-year-old runaway who flees her abusive father and is taken in by beekeeping sisters in South Carolina, played by Queen Latifah and Alicia Keys. Ella Taylor at the Village Voice is mildly entertained, but notes that "only near the end does this likable but saccharine movie fleetingly complicate the Gone With the Wind–fed delusion that the love of poor, black nannies for their white charges was undiluted by bitterness. Is that Hattie McDaniel I hear, whooping for joy from beyond the ...