Starring Queen Latifa, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, and Sophie Okonedo, The Secret Life of Bees opens October 17.

Watch the movie trailer before you go, and if you’re in New York on Tuesday, October 14, at 9:00 pm, you’ll enjoy hearing Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, author Sue Monk, and director Gina Prince-Bythewood discuss their new film at the Apple Retail Store, SoHo.

THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, based on the New York Times best selling novel and set in South Carolina in 1964, is the moving tale of Lily Owens (Fanning) a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother (Burton).
To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father (Bettany), Lily flees with Rosaleen (Hudson), her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother’s past.
Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters (Latifah, Okonedo and Keys), Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.


Genre:Drama
Director:Gina Prince-Bythewood
Cast:Queen Latifa, Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo