Name : Ainunnisa Ubudiyah

NIM : 220104120139

Class : D

REVIEW MOVIE

(Akeelah and The Bee)

 Setting : In the School

 Character : Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Curtis Armstrong, J. R.
Villareal
 Conflict : Not confident and pessimistic, saying that he was unable to take part in
the spelling competition.
 Resolution : self-confidence, support from those closest to you, and you try new
things
 Short summary from the movie : Akeelah Anderson is an 11 year old girl. He attended
Crenshaw High School, South Los Angeles. He felt that he was not appreciated by his
friends. This resulted in a lack of self-confidence and fear of appearing in public. In fact,
he often skipped school, never did his homework (PR), and he never showed interest in
any field, even though he always got good grades in English, especially SpellingHer
English teacher asked Akeelah to take part in a spelling bee competition (spelling words
in English) at her school, but Akeelah refused. With a few threats, the principal of
Crenshaw Middle School finally succeeded in getting Akeelah to take part in the spelling
bee competition. Akeelah won the spelling bee competition at her school, and she was
given the mandate to represent her school to take part in the spelling bee competition
at the district level, almost Akeelah didn't want to take part in the spelling bee contest.
Thanks to the motivation of her sister and her best friend, Akeelah had the courage to
register for the spelling bee contest. Akeelah prepares himself to take part in the
contest by watching it on television (spelling bee contest), playing spelling bee games
 and reading the spelling of words correctly (by looking in the dictionary). Akeelah won
the spelling bee contest at the district level and he advanced to the spelling bee
competition at the state level. It was Akee who initially refused help from Dr. Larabee
finally gave up and admitted that he needed a teacher to train him for this big race. Dr.
larabee helps Akeelah not only learn new words, but also helps her find what she wants.
The encouragement given by Dr. Larabee gets Akeelah up and fired up. Dr. Larabee tells
Akeelah to read essays and spell words from Latin, Greek and French. Akeelah trains
hard with Dr. Larabee. However, suddenly Dr. Larabee can't guide Akeelah anymore.
And Dr. Larabee asks Akeelah to memorize 5000 words. Akeelah learned to spell these
words with the people around her. When the competition took place, Akeelah had to
beat Dylan, who finished second last year. However, Akeelah knows that Dylan is often
pressured by his father to win this year's competition. and in the end, Akeelah and Dylan
won first place in the national spelling competition.
 The Message or the moral value : This film gives us motivation to be more confident in
public and teaches us to find goals (ideals/desires) that we can achieve and teaches us
to interact or learn with the environment around us