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Last night, we watched Akeelah and the Bee, which was a Starbucks Entertainment production. It was okay. Not terrible. Not wonderful. It's the basic underdog story. Akeelah is a bright student with a not so great attendance record at Crenshaw Middle School in LA. She lives in the projects, loves Scrabble, and just wants to fit in at school. Her principal wants her to do the spelling bee, so Crenshaw can stop having such a bad reputation. Yadda..Yadda...The only part of the movie I enjoyed even though it was pretty corny was when her whole neighborhood rallied behind her and helped her study for the national spelling bee. They helped her practice 5,000 spelling words.