Tell It to the Bees
Some secrets are too powerful to keep.
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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
Lauren Lyle
Annie Stock
Gregor Selkirk
Charlie Weekes
Kate Dickie
Pam Stock
Billy Boyd
Older Charlie (voice)
Euan Mason
John
Violet Fluendy
Chanting Girl 3
Kaidon McGrath
Bully Boy
Joanne Gallagher
Mrs Bewick
Leo Hoyte-Egan
George
Sarah McCardie
Mrs Robson
Rebecca Hanssen
Irene
Tori Burgess
Young Rose
Kyle Fitzpatrick
Rose Attacker 1
Ruaridh Mollica
Rose Attacker 2
Craig O'Hara
Rose Attacker 3
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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.
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