Feature2019·106m·7.5

Tell It to the Bees

Some secrets are too powerful to keep.

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

Jean Markham

Holliday Grainger

Lydia Weekes

Emun Elliott

Robert Weekes

Steven Robertson

Jim

Lauren Lyle

Annie Stock

Gregor Selkirk

Charlie Weekes

Kate Dickie

Pam Stock

Billy Boyd

Older Charlie (voice)

Euan Mason

John

Zara Howell

Chanting Girl 2

Violet Fluendy

Chanting Girl 3

Kaidon McGrath

Bully Boy

Liam Meghan

Billy

Joanne Gallagher

Mrs Bewick

Joni Samson

Connie

Isaac Jenkins

Tim

Farah Samson

Iris

Leo Hoyte-Egan

George

Sarah McCardie

Mrs Robson

Alexa Snell

Meg

Details

Status: Released
Original language: English
Languages: English
Budget: —
Revenue: —
Age rating: —
Quality: 4K UHD · HDR10 · Dolby Vision
Production: Taking a Line for a Walk ProductionsRiverstone PicturesArchface FilmsCayenne Film CompanyReliance Entertainment Productions 8

Crew

Director

Annabel Jankel

Writers

Fiona Shaw, Henrietta Ashworth, Jessica Ashworth

Alison Mitchell

Costume Design

Claire M Singer

Original Music Composer

Maya Maffioli

Editor

Andy Harris

Production Design

Jon Harris

Editor

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Reviews

beyondthecineramadome

6/20/2022

3.0

Full review: <a>https://www.tinakakadelis.com/beyond-the-cinerama-dome/2021/12/28/kept-you-like-a-secret-tell-it-to-the-bees-review<a> 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.