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With an aptitude for words, 11-year-old Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer)
is determined to spell her way out of South Los Angeles, entering scores of local contests & eventually landing a chance to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. Despite discouragement from her mother (Angela Bassett),
Akeelah gets support from her bookish tutor (Laurence Fishburne),
her principal (Curtis Armstrong)
& proud members of her community.
Rated PG 1 hour 52 minutes 2006
5 stars! Really awesome. Touching story. David cried like a little baby! (I sniffed a bit myself..uhhhhhh).
thought arkeela was the boy scouts leader being bit by a bee 
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