When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. It’s easy to assume that winning a spelling bee is all about studying and memorizing hard ...

That seemingly inexhaustible new movie subgenre, the spelling bee drama, receives its most conventionally uplifting treatment yet in "Akeelah and the Bee." Framed around the relationship between ...

Word lovers and schmaltz lovers alike will find much to adore about “Akeelah and the Bee,” a sweet little lollipop of a human-interest drama in which a child’s greatest athletic ecstasy can ...

No, she doesn’t have a photographic memory, nor is she channeling the occult, as the heroine of “Bee Season” does. She’s just a good speller. The story of Akeelah’s ascent to the finals of the ...

Well, after seeing “Akeelah and the Bee,” it will undoubtedly be winning the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. Akeelah (Keke Palmer, “Madea’s Family Reunion”), ...

Doug Atchison’s triumphant Akeelah and the Bee captures the inherent drama of the competition from a fresh new perspective, one that will have you wanting to stand up and cheer by story’s end ...

Akeelah and the Bee is corny, self-consciously uplifting, manipulative and formulaic. It dabbles in stereotypes, and it isn’t even the first spelling bee tale to come down the pike. But it&#8… ...

Akeelah, an 11-year-old girl living in South Los Angeles, discovers she has a talent for spelling, which she hopes will take her to the National Spelling Bee. Saturday Night at the Movies is ...

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It’s easy to assume that winning a spelling bee is all about studying and memorizing hard words, their definitions, and their language of origin. But because Akeelah was representing her low ...