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  • 2019
  • TV-MA
  • Good Deed Entertainment
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2019
  • TV-MA
  • Good Deed Entertainment
  • 1 h 48 m

Summary Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) 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 (Gregor Selkirk) 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...

Directed By: Annabel Jankel

Written By: Henrietta Ashworth, Jessica Ashworth, Fiona Shaw

  • 2019
  • TV-MA
  • Good Deed Entertainment
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2019
  • TV-MA
  • Good Deed Entertainment
  • 1 h 48 m

Tell It to the Bees

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
50
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) 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 (Gregor Selkirk) 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...

Directed By: Annabel Jankel

Written By: Henrietta Ashworth, Jessica Ashworth, Fiona Shaw

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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31% Positive
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69% Mixed
9 Reviews
0% Negative
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70
Apr 29, 2019
Tell It To The Bees can seem a little too respectable for its own good but there are moments of pain and heartbreak that rise to the surface, especially in a tense climax that puts the fates of several characters in the balance.
By Allan Hunter FULL REVIEW
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May 1, 2019
What Tell It To The Bees accomplishes for queer romance it abandons with an ending that is committed to unnecessary melancholy.
By Roxana Hadadi FULL REVIEW

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60
Jul 21, 2019
Grainger (soon to be seen in Sophie Hyde’s brilliant, jagged Animals) is a magnetic and sensual foil to the frowning, reliably expressive Paquin. The flirty tension between the two feels quietly credible, the camera occasionally shuddering with desire. A pity, then, that this sweetness is lost as the film makes a tonal swerve in its final third.
By Simran Hans FULL REVIEW
60
May 2, 2019
Paquin, in one of her strongest performances since The Piano, and especially Grainger (best known for a substantial résumé of British television) shoulder the film’s dramatic burdens with grace and ease. They’re a pleasure to watch. But the unassumingly square and overly familiar film simply isn’t the buzzworthy vehicle their work deserves.
By Geoff Berkshire FULL REVIEW
50
May 3, 2019
Then there’s a third act that’s so wildly out of left field, it shifts the tone completely. It’s an almost comical departure, but it’s certainly a disappointing one.
By Monica Castillo FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 19, 2019
A gentle and prettily appointed romantic tragedy with likeable performances; but there’s a stultifying blandness to proceedings and an implausible final act.
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40
Apr 29, 2019
Within the film’s modest scale, the period trappings feel apt, and its aesthetic packaging is attractive enough. But particularly for a movie largely about repression, “Bees” is so full of forced emotions that it teeters on the brink of cliche-riddled camp.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Motion Picture Capital, BFI Film Fund, Creative Scotland, Reliance Entertainment Productions 8, Taking a Line for a Walk Productions, Archface Films, Riverstone Pictures, Cayenne Film Company, Twickenham Film Studios, Film i Väst, Filmgate Films, Film Constellation
Release Date May 3, 2019
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating TV-MA
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Awards

Kingston Reelout Film Festival
• 3 Nominations
Pink Apple
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Barcelona-Sant Jordi International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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