Ulee's Gold

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Ulee’s Gold, 1997.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Ulee’s Gold, 1997.

Title character Peter Fonda, a north-Florida beekeeper and the custodian of two young granddaughters, has been summoned to visit his inmate son (Tom Wood), who has word of their troubled mother, in writer-director Victor Nunez’s Ulee’s Gold, 1997.

Florida beekeeper Peter Fonda (title character) returns home with wayward Helen (Christine Dunford), the addicted mother of the two granddaughters (Jessica Biel, Vanessa Zima) he cares for, their tenant, nurse Connie (Patricia Richardson), called on for help, in Victor Nunez’s Ulee’s Gold, 1997.

From writer-director and Florida State professor Victor Nunez, a brief survey of those around his beekeeper title character (Peter Fonda), Traber Burns the buyer, J. Kenneth Campbell the sheriff, Vanessa Zima as grand-daughter Penny, early in Ulee’s Gold, 1997.