Tell It to the Bees

Tell It to the Bees
2019
★★★★☆ 7.5/10
⏱️ 106 min
📅 Released
🌐 EN
RomanceDrama
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.

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Cast

Anna Paquin
Anna Paquin
Jean Markham
Holliday Grainger
Holliday Grainger
Lydia Weekes
Emun Elliott
Emun Elliott
Robert Weekes
Steven Robertson
Steven Robertson
Jim
Lauren Lyle
Lauren Lyle
Annie Stock
Gregor Selkirk
Gregor Selkirk
Charlie Weekes

User Reviews

beyondthecineramadome
★ 3/10
June 20, 2022
Full review: https://www.tinakakadelis.com/beyond-the-cinerama-dome/2021/12/28/kept-you-like-a-secret-tell-it-to-the-bees-review Adapted from Fiona Shaw’s book of the same name, _Tell it to the Bees_ is a historical romance centering on a relationship between two women. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) is a new doctor in a town in Scotland in the 1950s. She begins a friendship with a woman named Lydia Weekes (Holliday Grainger) after Lydia’s son Charlie (Gregor Selkirk) develops a fascination with Jean’s bees. Lydia is married to an abusive man (Emun Elliott) and their marriage is falling apart. In Jean, Lydia and Charlie find a supportive and caring person to lean on.

Crew

Director
Annabel Jankel
Writer
Henrietta Ashworth, Jessica Ashworth
Producer
Nik Bower, Nick Hill, Daisy Allsop

Production

Taking a Line for a Walk Productions, Riverstone Pictures, Archface Films, Cayenne Film Company, Reliance Entertainment Productions 8

Keywords

based on novel or bookscotlandlesbian relationshipworking classlgbtwoman director1950sfailed marriagebeekeeperlesbian