Film

Tell It to the Bees

2019 · 1h 46m · Romance · Drama

Some secrets are too powerful to keep.

IMDb

6.5

Rotten Tomatoes

49%

Metacritic

50

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 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

• Annabel JankelProducer · Director
• Jessica AshworthScreenplay
• Henrietta AshworthScreenplay
• Fiona ShawNovel
• Nik BowerProducer
• Nick HillProducer
• Daisy AllsopProducer
• Laure VaysseProducer
• Sunny VohraExecutive Producer
• Ross McKenzieExecutive Producer

Official TrailerTeaser Trailer

Release date

May 3, 2019

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

NR

Genres

Romance, Drama

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