This Week in Independent Film

  • Title: The Secret Life of Bees
  • IMDB: link

Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, about an incident in 1964 which causes Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning) and Rosaleen Daise (Jennifer Hudson) to flee their home and end up with three beekeeping sisters (Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo) in the town of Tiburon, comes to the big screen.  Paul Bettany, Hilarie Burton, and Tristan Wilds also star.  Check out the official site.  The film opens in theaters everywhere on Friday.