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The Bumblebee Flies Anyway

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Barney Snow wakes up in a hospital with no memory of why he is there. All he has is his name and some vague recollections of a car crash. He assumes that he is in the hospital for his amnesia and settles in to try to recover. He quickly realizes that all of the other residents of the youth clinic are
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In his explorations, both inside his shattered memories and through the physical rooms of the hospital, Barney starts to realize that there was no car crash. Doctor Harriman induced amnesia in Barney to make him forget everything in his past. Barney demands to know why, and Harriman tells him he has
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Another patient, Mazzo, asks Barney to play host for his visiting twin sister Cassie. Barney immediately falls for Cassie and strives to get better, if only to be able to see her in a setting outside the hospital. He is determined to learn about his past so that he can make her a part of his future.
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Torn between his hope for a cure and his desire to continue his budding relationship with Cassie, Barney is forced to choose whether to go through the amnesia procedure again or remain with the memories and knowledge he has thus far acquired.
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praised the acting and called it "A meticulously made film that raises haunting questions about personal identity and the role of mind over matter in treating serious illness."
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The theory was that if Barney did not know he had cancer, the body might stop creating the cancer cells. The explanation Harriman gives comes from an old myth that, based on
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gave a more mixed review, commenting the film cannot decide if it is "a lighthearted teen coming-of-age story, or an eerie
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should be aerodynamically incapable of flight — yet the bumblebee doesn’t know that, so it flies anyway.
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in September 1999 and was given a limited release in the United States on January 1, 2000.
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Index

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (novel)

Martin Duffy
The Bumbleebee Flies Anyway
Robert Cormier
Steven Haft
Larry Meistrich
Elijah Wood
Rachael Leigh Cook
Christopher Tyng
TSG Pictures
Deauville
drama
Elijah Wood
Martin Duffy
novel of the same name
Robert Cormier
Deauville American Film Festival
cancer
weight ratios to wing power
wind resistance
bumblebees
Elijah Wood
Janeane Garofalo
Rachael Leigh Cook
George O. Gore II
Joseph Perrino
Roger Rees
Variety
TV Guide

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