Studio: Fox Searchlight Starring: Flora Cross, Juliette Binoche, Kate Bosworth, Max Minghella, Richard Gere Directed By: David Siegel, Scott McGehee Written By: Myla Goldberg (Novel), Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Produced By: Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa Rated: PG-13 In Theaters: 2005-11-11 Genre: Drama, Family
Movie Plot / Synopsis
11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty.