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Bee Season (2005)
43 %
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Reviews Counted: 101
Fresh: 43
Rotten:58
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Consensus: Bee Season is an intelligent, but frustratingly distant and diffuse drama about family dysfunction.
Theatrical Release: Nov 11, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $1,141,752
Synopsis: Based on the bestselling novel by Myla Goldberg, BEE SEASON follows a family of seekers, each of whom is looking to God, transcendence, or love, in their search for something greater than themselves. Eleven-year-old Eliza Nauman (Flora... [More]
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The themes of Bee Season are as intricate and complex as letters of the alphabet and the words used for communication. This powerful multifaceted drama takes us into the intimate workings of a family and the tenuous, delicate threads that keep it together
11/11/05
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08/31/07
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Words and letters may hold all the secrets of the universe, but 104 minutes wasn't enough to hold and resolve all the secrets and mysteries of Bee Season.
09/08/06
Top Critic Perhaps the film's disparate subplots are given due attention in the book, but it all feels unfocused and jammed together here.
02/21/06
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02/09/06
Top Critic A well-told, enjoyable and insightful film, but its not necessarily as revelatory as its makers seem to think.
02/04/06
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01/28/06
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01/27/06
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01/17/06
Top Critic Os dez minutos finais de projeção parecem pertencer a um outro filme. Bem ruim, por sinal.
12/22/05
Something like a dream Madonna might've had while she nodded off during Spellbound...
12/08/05
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12/06/05
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This is second-rate Hallström, drama plus whimsy that, when rubbed together, creates not friction and fire, but a nubbing-down of both elements.
12/06/05
The premise is intriguing, but the oddly toned screenplay is a mostly opaque and convoluted string of dramatically convenient yet inconsistent assumptions.
12/06/05
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