6.9
Room at the Top
1958
Some secrets are too powerful to keep.
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.
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.
Anna PaquinJean Markham
Holliday GraingerLydia Weekes
Emun ElliottRobert Weekes
Steven RobertsonJim
Lauren LyleAnnie Stock
Gregor SelkirkCharlie Weekes
Kate DickiePam Stock
Billy BoydOlder Charlie (voice)
Euan MasonJohn
Violet FluendyChanting Girl 3
Kaidon McGrathBully Boy
Joanne GallagherMrs Bewick
Isaac JenkinsTim
Leo Hoyte-EganGeorge
Sarah McCardieMrs Robson
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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.
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