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Tell It to the Bees
Dr. Jean Markham 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 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 into Jean's world.
2019 · Directed by Annabel Jankel · 106 min · Romance · Drama · 17 frames
Tagline
Some secrets are too powerful to keep.
Crew
- Screenplay: Henrietta Ashworth, Jessica Ashworth
- Edited by: Maya Maffioli, Jon Harris
- Music: Claire M Singer
- Production design: Andy Harris
- Produced by: Nik Bower, Nick Hill, Daisy Allsop, Annabel Jankel
Cast
- Anna Paquin as Jean Markham
- Holliday Grainger as Lydia Weekes
- Emun Elliott as Robert Weekes
- Steven Robertson as Jim
- Lauren Lyle as Annie Stock
- Gregor Selkirk as Charlie Weekes
- Kate Dickie as Pam Stock
- Billy Boyd as Older Charlie (voice)
- Euan Mason as John
- Zara Howell as Chanting Girl 2
Production
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Studios: Taking a Line for a Walk Productions, Riverstone Pictures, Archface Films, Cayenne Film Company
- Themes: based on novel or book, scotland, lesbian relationship, working class, lgbt, woman director, 1950s, failed marriage, beekeeper, lesbian
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