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Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Secret Life of Bees with Jourdain Searles

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Film Reviews, Society & Culture, Comedy, Tv & Film

4.7 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2020

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

A coming-of age story. Racism in America. Complex connections to motherhood. The Secret Life of Bees adaptation had a lot of themes to tackle. This week we look back to 2008 and compare the strengths and weaknesses of Prince-Bythewood’s biggest commercial success.  Critic, comedian and co-host (Bad Romance Podcast) Jourdain Searles returns to talk meeting celebrities at the worst moments, Hollywood’s attempts to depict the south, and underrated Queen Latifah performances. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Instagram, Threads, Facebook and X! Buy some real nerdy merch. Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

My whole life has been nothing but a hole where my podcast should have been.

0:25.5

You'd always left me aching but I never thought about what it did to you.

0:30.5

I don't have a Dakota.

0:33.4

No, I'd be impressive if you did.

0:35.4

Yeah.

0:36.4

Is this the like, this is sort of the end of the run of child Dakota, right?

0:42.5

This is unfortunately all I want.

0:44.3

I always thinking about for most of the, I was like, man, the Dakota star arc is weird.

0:49.7

Yes.

0:50.7

The end of young Dakota, I guess, because next year is new moon.

0:58.0

And then the year after that is the runaways.

0:59.7

And I feel like that's when it's like she's a grown up star.

1:03.2

Right, but she becomes supporting or if she's lead, it's in much smaller films.

1:08.0

But this is the end of this insane run in which like not even like McColle Cawkin, but

1:15.2

where a small girl became like a prestige high brown movie star.

1:22.3

It's a weird, it's a weird thing.

1:24.8

There are a lot of clear arcs to talk about here.

1:29.3

Yes, there are.

1:30.3

But what were you going to say?

1:31.5

It's also, it's also just funny that like she was like, you know, one of the big kid

1:36.4

actresses when, you know, in the 2000s and she's still around, but her sister is the

1:41.9

one who got famous in a way.

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