This is one of those movies so bad I wrote this review before it was even halfway finished. It's kind of a foregone conclusion.
Wooden acting, over-obvious symbolism (the lead actress talks about a bee becoming the hive's new queen as "Cinderella" in the beginning; not five minutes later we see her getting mistreated by her stepmother and scrubbing bedsheets in the house while wearing a Queen t-shirt), and improbable, logic-defying behavior star in this weirdly tough-to-follow story about a bullied high school outcast and beekeeping hobbyist who is picked for an unlikely friendship by an improbable substitute teacher who seems to leap from protecting her from bullies to taking her out for dinner to inviting her along to egg houses to having her move in with her improbable family at her remote farm in the space of about 2 days.
Strangely, the cinematography is competent and looks like someone somewhere in the production staff might have actually known what they were doing, and the lead actress kind of seems at points like she can act, both of which disguise this movie. Usually these kinds of messes are so cheaply made that they have the kind of USA-Up-All-Nite-y-ness that you can see coming apart at the seams.
Honestly, if this had had those cheap-shit production values, I might have enjoyed it more.
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