Akeelah And The Bee

You’ll have a lump in your throat during this heart-tugger, even if its spelling-bee setting has been done to death of late in Spellbound and Bee Season. Familiarity, though, doesn’t really hurt this tale of an 11-year-old brainiac (Keke Palmer) from south-central LA who is steered to the national finals by her coach (Laurence Fishburne). Angela Bassett plays the heroine’s mum, though her scenes with Fishburne are too sporadic to hail this as a What’s Love Got To Do With It reunion.

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