Bee Season (2005)

Awards
- 1 nomination

Videos13

Watch Bee Season Scene: I Need You To Come Home Honey

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Watch Bee Season Scene: We're All Going To Sacramento

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Watch Bee Season Scene: Dandelion

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Watch Bee Season Scene: There's A Girl At The Gate

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Watch Bee Season Scene: I Can See The Word

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Watch Bee Season Scene: This Is A Beautiful Thing

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Watch Bee Season Scene: Don't You Know Your Father

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Watch Bee Season Scene: It's Beautiful, Isn't It

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Directors
- Scott McGehee
- David Siegel
Writers
- Myla Goldberg
- Naomi Foner
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Trivia
Dakota Fanning was originally supposed to play Eliza, but directors selected Flora Cross because she looked so much more like Juliette Binoche.

Goofs
When Aaron goes to church, after the priest says "This is the Lamb of God...etc" Catholics should answer: "Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and I shall be healed". People in the church do not respond to the priest, but go directly to receive Communion, and it is very clear that the ceremony going on is Catholic.

Quotes
Saul: There are people who believe that letters are an expression of a very special primal energy and when they combine to make words they hold all the secrets of the universe...
Saul: Remember the Vikings?
Saul: [Takes a green apple] OK, Vikings called this "aepli".
Saul: Now when they took it across the sea in their ships it became "apfel".
Saul: Crossed another border, it became "appel".
Saul: By the time it got to us it was "apple".
Saul: Its spelling contains all of that.
Saul: It holds its history inside it.

Connections
Featured in At the Movies: Episode #2.41 (2005)

Soundtracks
Partita in B Minor BWV 1002 Sarabande
Written by Johann Sebastian Bach
Arranged by Peter Nashel and Patrick Zimmerli
Performed by Tim Fain and Inbal Segev

Austin Movie Show review -- transcendent

Imagine growing up in a family of academics, musicians, and Jewish mystics. When 12-year-old Eliza (Flora Cross) wins both the district and regional spelling bees, her father, Saul (Richard GereJewish mysticism, begins to tutor her daily. Not only is he preparing her for the state spelling bee competition, but Saul is also training his daughter to be the mystic he wasn't able to become. Bee Season is not only a movie about meditation, but it is also itself a meditation. This family is consumed with finding God, but they all look outside of the family to find it, and in the process, the family falls apart. Eliza's older brother Aaron (Max Minghella) is so jealous that his sister is getting all of the family's attention that he goes off and joins a Buddhist cult, and everyone in the family is so focused on their own problems that no one notices the mother (Juliette Binoche) going slowly insane! Bee Season is transcendent and thought-provoking, and it even makes me want to go out and look for God.