Young black girl overcomes peer pressure struggling family & classism to compete in spelling bee
Akeelah and the Bee is a great inspirational family film about Akeelah (Keke Palmer) who is a middle school student who wants to compete in the Scipps National Spelling Bee, hence the Bee in the title. The movie deals with the struggles of many smart kids in urban schools where they don’t want to show that they’re smart because they fear ridicule by their peers. It also has the community rallying behind Akeelah to help her prepare for the Bee, while also highlighting the class differences between Akeelah and the kids she’ll be competing against.<br /><br />The movie begins with Akeelah getting an A on a spelling test in school, but not wanting anyone to know because she’s afraid what her classmates might say about her. This is the peer pressure she’s under to not show her smarts. She’s self-motivated and is inspired by her dead father who she talks to every night, but she needs to overcome her fears before she’s prepared to compete in the Bee.<br /><br />The story then focuses upon her preparing for the competition and all the people that help her. That ranges from Dr. Joshua Larabee (Laurence Fishburne) an English professor who becomes her coach to the locals in her community.<br /><br />Finally, there’s the class issue. As her school principal and brother tell Akeelah she will be competing with kids from affluent families from the rich neighborhoods and suburbs that have the money, time and a history of competing. Akeelah on the other hand lives in the inner city, goes to a poor school which she hates, her mother (Angela Bassett) is more concerned with her brother who gets in trouble all the time than Akeelah and who works all the time. The differences between her and her competition is emphasized when she joins a spelling club in a well to do community. That was actually a motivation for the film maker Doug Atchison who saw only affluent kids winning the Scripps competition.<br /><br />Overall, Akeelah And the Bee is a great family movie. It shows the struggles of a young African American girl attempting to do something that even she questioned she could do.<br />C
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