The Secret Life of Bees

Haunted by her mother’s death, 14-year-old Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning) escapes her dreary life on her father’s farm and heads to Tiburon, S.C., with friend and caregiver Rosaleen Daise (Jennifer Hudson), spawning a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Set amid the hotbed of racial tensions in the 1960s South, writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s touching drama is based on Sue Monk Kidd’s best-selling novel of the same name.