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'Akeelah' may leave you spellbound.(TICKET)

Sarasota Herald Tribune

| April 28, 2006 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: GEORGE MEYER CORRESPONDENT

Just because a movie has been put together by the numbers doesn't mean it's a bad movie. "Akeelah and the Bee" is a case in point.

We learn a lot of standard information as we get to know the heroine, a nice, 11-year-old, middle- to low-income black girl named Akeelah (Keke Palmer).

She's beset by all the social ills of modern urban life, and writer-director Doug Atchison catalogs them all, more or less in sequence:

1. Akeelah's widowed mother, a nurse (Angela Bassett), works hard, and thus has little time to devote to her daughter.

2. The girls at Akeelah's middle school tease Akeelah because…

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