Synopsis: Cast: Dolly Parton, Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan, Dexter Darden Movie Details Play Trailer Movie Review

Opens Friday, Jan 13, 2012 Synopsis: Cast: Dolly Parton, Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, Jeremy Jordan, Dexter Darden Movie Details Play Trailer Movie Review

...the crowd-pleasing documentary Spellbound and the tepid drama Bee Season comes this tale of an inner-city girl (Keke Palmer) whose innate ability to spell puts her on a fast-track to regional spelling bees and the national championship...

...hearing. This turns out to be difficult. Ends today at Augusta Village AKEELAH AND THE BEE (****, PG) Akeelah (Keke Palmer) is a spelling whiz at her Los Angeles school but avoids the spelling bee because other students make fun of "brainiacs...

...online movie guide, see augustachronicle.com/movies: COMING FRIDAY AKEELAH AND THE BEE (HHHH, PG) Akeelah (Keke Palmer) is a spelling whiz at her Los Angeles school but avoids the spelling bee because other students make fun of "brainiacs...

...Macy plays a mute building superintendent with a checkered past who befriends an agile 9-year-old girl (Lauren "KeKe" Palmer) abandoned by her drug-addicted mother. Don Rickles, Ned Beatty and Catherine O'Hara also star. "I had seen...

...play Pop Warner football, a league that was previously a boys-only club. Cube plays a coach who drafts his niece (Keke Palmer) to take over as quarterback, her natural athletic ability lifting the team from also-rans to championship contenders...

...sense of humor tranquilized. Augusta Exchange, Aiken, Evans, ONGOING AKEELAH AND THE BEE (HHHH, PG) Akeelah (Keke Palmer) is a spelling whiz. A professor (Laurence Fishburne) agrees to be her coach, and she moves up through the spelling...

...newlyweds Matt Dillon and Kate Hudson. Evans, Aiken, Augusta Exchange ONGOING AKEELAH AND THE BEE (HHHH, PG) Akeelah (Keke Palmer) is a spelling whiz. A professor (Laurence Fishburne) agrees to be her coach, and she moves up through the spelling...

...Jones' locker. Aiken, Augusta Exchange, Evans, Big Mo, Monetta ONGOING AKEELAH AND THE BEE (HHHH, PG) Akeelah (Keke Palmer) is a spelling whiz. A professor (Laurence Fishburne) agrees to be her coach, and she moves up through the spelling...