Tell It To The Bees

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  • 1hr 47m
  • 50

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Annabel Jankel

Producer:

Daisy Allsop, Andrew Boswell, Nik Bower

Writer:

Henrietta Ashworth, Jessica Ashworth, Fiona Shaw

Release Date:

May 3, 2019

Runtime:

1hr 47m

Synopsis

Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) 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 (Gregor Selkirk) 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 (Holliday Grainger) into Jean's world. In the sanctuary of the doctor's house the two women find themselves dram to one another in a way that Jean recognizes and fears, and Lydia could never have expected. But, in 1950's small-town Britain, their new secret can't say hidden forever.

Cast

  • Anna Paquin
  • Holliday Grainger
  • Gregor Selkirk
  • Kate Dickie
  • Emun Elliott
  • Rebecca Hanssen
  • Lauren Lyle
  • Scott Andrew
  • Lauren Annie Boyle
  • Ben Bradley

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Metacritic

50
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Based on 13 Critics
5.6

USER SCORE (11)

Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Reviews
70
Apr 29, 2019

It’s hard to dislike this pleasant, earnest work.

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Metacritic review by Leslie Felperin
Leslie Felperin
The Hollywood Reporter
42
Apr 29, 2019

It falls flat. There are a variety of reasons — one-note characters, an overly-familiar story arc, a laughable sequence of bee heroism (!). (Alternate title idea: “Secrets and Hives.”) Still, there is the work of Grainger and Paquin.... They make Tell It to the Bees watchable, and are worthy of high praise.

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Metacritic review by Christopher Schobert
Christopher Schobert
The Playlist
70
Apr 29, 2019

Tell It To The Bees can seem a little too respectable for its own good but there are moments of pain and heartbreak that rise to the surface, especially in a tense climax that puts the fates of several characters in the balance.

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Allan Hunter
Screen Daily
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