July 11, 2008
A STAR-MAKING TURN for Dakota Fanning is confirmed at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES, based on the bestselling novel set in the American South, will see Fanning step into a new role as an adult actor when the film has its world premiere in Toronto, says festival co-director Cameron Bailey.
“Dakota Fanning has a career-defining performance. I think we'll see her as an adult star,” Bailey says. “This is her Jodie Foster moment, where she turns into a genuine adult actor.”
Based on the bestselling novel THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES is set in South Carolina in 1964, the film is the moving tale of Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning), a 14-year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother (Hilarie Burton). To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father (Paul Bettany), Lily flees with Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson), her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters (Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo and Alicia Keys), Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping, honey and the Black Madonna. THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES is a Fox Searchlight Pictures presentation.
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