Akeelah and the bee / [print] Lionsgate 2929 Productions and Starbucks Entertainment present an Out of the Blue Entertainment and Reactor Films production in association with Cinema Gypsy Productions, Incorporated ; produced by Nancy Hult ... [and others] ; written and directed by Doug Atchison. - Full screen. - [Toronto] : Lions Gate : (c)2006. - 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Disc label title. Special features include: making of, featurettes, music video, gag reel, deleted scenes. Originally released as a motion picture.

Despite her mother's objections and with the help of an outspoken professor, Akeelah Anderson lands a spot in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

CHV rating: G.



17151 Lions Gate


Spelling bees--Drama.
Single-parent families--Drama.
African American families--Drama.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

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