Akeelah and the Bee

Louis: *** Angela: ***

What can we say, we're suckers for these "under dog" type movies (The Rookie, Rudy, etc.). This one is the story of Akeelah, a young girl from a poor area of south Los Angeles with a natural gift for spelling. She's gets involved in a local spelling bee and decides to see how far she can make it on the road to the national spelling bee. Laurence Fishburne plays her coach (ala Morpheous from The Matrix) and the two develop a sweet father-daughter relationship.