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.
- 7.5
- 2019
- Released
- 1h 46m
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 BoyLiam Meghan
Billy
Joanne Gallagher
Mrs BewickJoni Samson
Connie
Isaac Jenkins
TimFarah Samson
Iris
Leo Hoyte-Egan
George
Sarah McCardie
Mrs RobsonAlexa Snell
MegMichael O'Connor
Pete
Rebecca Hanssen
Irene
Tori Burgess
Young Rose
Kyle Fitzpatrick
Rose Attacker 1
Ruaridh Mollica
Rose Attacker 2
Craig O'Hara
Rose Attacker 3Ben Bradley
Grocer
Declan Gemmell
JimmyPenny Sharp
AbortionistLauren Boyle
Released
en
- #based on novel or book
- #scotland
- #lesbian relationship
- #working class
- #lgbt
- #woman director
- #1950s
- #failed marriage
- #beekeeper
- #lesbian
Reviews
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 name