Third-generation Florida beekeeper Ulee Jackson may have gotten out of Vietnam alive, but he left a part of himself behind. Now he methodically tends his bees, carefully provides for his two grandchildren and keeps his emotions at bay. But when a long-buried secret threatens Ulee's business and family, he is forced to break through his emotional walls and confront the terror of his wounded spirit.
Acting
Fonda's Oscar-nominated stillness—every blink holds decades of pain.
Direction
Nuñez captures Florida's humid, oppressive beauty like a fever dream.
Director
Victor Nuñez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peter Fonda's only Oscar nomination—his father Henry and sister Jane both won, making him the family's 'loser' no more.
Shot in Live Oak, Florida with real beekeepers as extras; Fonda learned to handle live hives without a stunt double.
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