Tell It to the Bees (2018)

NR09/09/2018Romance, Drama1h 46m

Some secrets are too powerful to keep.

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Anna Paquin

    Jean Markham

  2. Cast 1

    Holliday Grainger

    Lydia Weekes

  3. Cast 1

    Emun Elliott

    Robert Weekes

  4. Cast 1

    Steven Robertson

    Jim

  5. Cast 1

    Lauren Lyle

    Annie Stock

  6. Cast 1

    Gregor Selkirk

    Charlie Weekes

  7. Cast 1

    Kate Dickie

    Pam Stock

  8. Cast 1

    Billy Boyd

    Older Charlie (voice)

  9. Cast 1

    Euan Mason

    John

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 a...