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Bee Movie (U.S.A., release: November 2, 2007)
Having just graduated from college, a bee by the name of Barry B. Benson (Jerry Seinfeld) finds himself disillusioned with the prospect of having only one career choice - honey. As he ventures outside of the hive for the first time, he breaks one of the cardinal rules of the bee world and talks to a human, a New York City florist named Vanessa (Renee Zellweger). He is shocked to discover that the humans have been stealing and eating the bees' honey for centuries, and ultimately realizes that his true calling in life is to set the world right by suing the human race for stealing their precious honey. Because of this, Barry wins the lawsuit, and all honey in the world is confiscated and returned to the bees. But now, Barry and Vanessa realize that now because all the honey in the world is back, every bee has been put out of a job, and thus cannot earn money for their families. Barry also realizes that without bees pollinating the flowers, they are dying. He then realizes that to set things right, he and Vanessa must find a way to re-pollinate the flowers and get the bees their jobs back before the balance of nature shifts for the worse. | From Wikipedia, photo from IMDB

Ulee's Gold (U.S.A., 1997)
Released the same year as Titanic, this moving and emotional film was nominated for Oscar. Third-generation Florida beekeeper Ulee Jackson (Peter Fonda) is a bee keeper whose struggling small business is all that keeps him focused in the wake of his wife's death, his daughter-in-law Helen's drug addiction, and the de facto single-parent obligations to his adolescent granddaughters. But when both his family and his livelihood are threatened by a long-buried secret, Ulee must break through his emotional walls, find the strength to change and begin life anew. Coincidentally, Peter Fonda's dad Henry Fonda had been an amateur beekeeper during his acting career. | Photo from Amazon.com

Aurora Borealis (Russia, 2001)
Before getting married, a young woman decides to find and see her father who left them before she could remember. He works as a doctor in a big city. She gets there and poses as a patient. But the more she gets to know him, and his father, her grandfather, who keeps bees, the more she feels at home - easy and comfortable - with these two wonderful people. She tastes their honey, visits their beeyard, and starts to realize that it is hard to separate these people from her own life, even before they know the truth about who she really is.



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