Tell It to the Bees

“Some secrets are too powerful to keep.”

7.5

2019

1h 46m

RomanceDrama

Director: Annabel Jankel

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.

Trailer

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Cast

Jean Markham

Anna Paquin

Jean Markham

Lydia Weekes

Holliday Grainger

Lydia Weekes

Robert Weekes

Emun Elliott

Robert Weekes

Jim

Steven Robertson

Jim

Annie Stock

Lauren Lyle

Annie Stock

Charlie Weekes

Gregor Selkirk

Charlie Weekes

Pam Stock

Kate Dickie

Pam Stock

Older Charlie (voice)

Billy Boyd

Older Charlie (voice)

John

Euan Mason

John

Chanting Girl 2

Zara Howell

Chanting Girl 2

Chanting Girl 3

Violet Fluendy

Chanting Girl 3

Bully Boy

Kaidon McGrath

Bully Boy

Reviews

beyondthecineramadome

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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