Watch: Bee Season 2005 123movies, Full Movie Online – Living in Oakland, California, the Naumanns are outwardly a loving, supportive family. Husband and father Saul Naumann is a Religious Studies professor, and looks to his religious training in Judaism as tenets for his family to live. He has high expectations for all members of his family. His mid-teen son, Aaron Naumann, idolizes his father, and does whatever he can to please him. His pre-teen daughter, Eliza Naumann, often feels the neglected child. So when Saul eventually learns that Eliza is participating and excelling in spelling bees, she becomes the focus of his life as he believes that letters in the form of words will lead to answers to the universe. That change in focus to Eliza makes Aaron now feel the neglected one, he who strikes out quietly in his own way with the help of Chali, a young woman he meets. But the person who has felt the most pressure within Saul’s way of life is his wife, Miriam Naumann, a microbiologist. She converted from Catholicism to Judaism when she and Saul married. But as Saul espouses the concept of tikkun olam, bringing together the shards of the world to make it whole, it affects Miriam negatively in trying to cope with an incident from her childhood. Through it all, Eliza may understand her father’s way of life the best, and use it in a way unexpected to bring the family back together..
Plot: 11-year-old Eliza is the invisible element of her family unit: her parents are both consumed with work and her brother is wrapped up in his own adolescent life. Eliza ignites not only a spark that makes her visible but one that sets into motion a revolution in her family dynamic when she wins a spelling bee. Finding an emotional outlet in the power of words and in the spiritual mysticism that he sees at work in her unparalleled gift, Eliza’s father pours all of his energy into helping his daughter become spelling bee champion. A religious studies professor, he sees the opportunity as not only a distraction from his life but as an answer to his own crisis of faith. His vicarious path to God, real or imagined, leads to an obsession with Eliza’s success and he begins teaching her secrets of the Kabbalah. Now preparing for the National Spelling Bee, Eliza looks on as a new secret of her family’s hidden turmoil seems to be revealed with each new word she spells.
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Probably not for everyone
I can’t remember when I last feel asleep watching a movie. Until Bee Season.I have the distinct feeling that I should find the book and read that, but I found this movie disappointing and unable to generate emotion in the audience partially because of the prevalence of overly simplified characters.
The basic premise of the movie sounded interesting, but the execution did not bring any emotional engagement in a movie which could have offered so much more.
I came away with the distinct feeling that it was an attempt by shallow people to make a deep movie.
amazing movie
rarely have i seen such a wonderful, touching and deep movie. i think it is a masterpiece about the human condition and the human relationships. it has some amazing imagery and i simply loved the idea of it all. the fact that people can be so close and yet so far apart, that one can try and mend one’s life but capturing the light…or can hear the voice of God through words it is so ingenious and beautiful! i loved loved loved the movie and i sincerely recommend it to all those who believe in the light of the spirit and to those who love the mystery of life. the actors were convincing and the kids just beautiful. it is a story about the human quest of the holy grail; they search it in different ways but in fact it’s the same thing. the one who makes it is the the purest at heart. a modern fairy tale about the search of the human soul…just beautiful!
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 44 min (104 min)
Budget 14000000
Revenue 6856989
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Drama, Family
Director Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Writer Myla Goldberg, Naomi Foner
Actors Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche, Flora Cross
Country United States, Germany
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision E-Series Lenses
Laboratory FotoKem Laboratory, Burbank (CA), USA, DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length (6 reels)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 500T 5218, Vision 320T 5277, Vision 500T 5279)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm