The Secret Life of Bees: Dakota Fanning's Parents Are Horrible Human Beings
Click to watch The Secret Life of Bees trailer at Zuguide.com
With the release of The Secret Life of Bees, Dakota Fanning’s parents continue to hold their breath to see if their daughter, and the family’s primary source of income, can begin to make the transition from precocious child star to respectable teen actress. This is a delicate time in the career of any stage parent because so much can go wrong. Besides acne, gawkiness, rebellion, and drug use, there’s the chance that what worked for your little cash cow as a 6-year-old will be totally worthless in the cutthroat realm of adolescent cinema. For every Drew Barrymore, there’s a Haley Joel Osment. For every Christina Ricci, there’s a Macaulay Culkin. And, for every Elijah Wood, there sure as hell is a Jonathan Lipnicki. The trick is to choose the right roles, wait out the downturns, and never give up hope that your ungrateful offspring will remain cute, popular, and lucrative up until their 18th birthday. After that, who cares? And, as always, have an insurance policy (Elle Fanning).
In The Secret Life of Bees, Fanning (I Am Sam, Uptown Girls, Man on Fire, War of the Worlds, Charlotte’s Web) runs away from home with her caregiver, Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls, Sex and the City), to escape a troubled relationship with her father, Paul Bettany (A Beautful Mind, Wimbledon, The Da Vinci Code), and learn more about her late mother’s past. Fanning and Hudson are soon welcomed by the Boatwright sisters, played by Queen Latifah (Chicago, Barbershop 2, Last Holiday), Alicia Keys (The Nanny Diaries), and Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda, Aeon Flux), whose intelligence and independent nature (and bees) help Fanning overcome the difficult memories that have been haunting her. Highlights of the Secret Life of Bees trailer include: 1) Fanning rambling through a cockamamie set of circumstances trying to explain to Queen Latifah why she and Hudson need a place to stay. 2) Tristan Wilds (Michael Lee from The Wire) getting caught singing to jars of honey. And, 3) Fanning spraying Keys with a garden hose. My favorite part of the trailer comes near the end when Fanning heaves a jar of honey against a wall in anger. The Secret Life of Bees opened October 17, 2008. Check out The Secret Life of Bees trailer at Zuguide.com.
What are you baseing this on? Your the kind of person who would have accused everyone of witchcraft if you had lived in medevial europe. Nobody has any idea what Dakota’s parents are really like except for those people who know them personally. People who form opinions without evidence have always annoyed the hell out of me. I think your post is evidence that your a gossipy judgemental bitch.
bill
26 Oct 08 at 12:01 pm
Have you heard of the Coogan Account? Which requires 15% of the child earnings to go into that account that no one can touch until the child is 18. Also, now in the state of the California 100% of the earnings goes to the child. And Steve Fanning, Dakota’s dad still works, so they are not living off their children’s earnings. This post is ridiculous!
Ann
26 Oct 08 at 5:01 pm
Apparently, the Fannings have hired a team of witches to try to bury the truth of their rampant greed and disregard for their daughters’ right to a normal childhood with overly emotional blog comments. You all should save the effort and just cast a spell granting yourselves a sense of humor. This is a sarcastic movie trailer blog, not the New York Times. Please refer to the fun facts about Megan Fox’s childhood in the How to Lose Friends & Alienate People post if you require further proof.
Adam
27 Oct 08 at 12:41 am
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