Akira and the Spelling Bee [Film and TV Commentary]

Since the death of her father five years ago, Akira Anderson (Keke Palmer) has slowly become a "problem girl". She skips classes, plays tricks, and is always with her mother Tanya (Angela Bassett). Bassett) did the right thing, and the teacher couldn't do anything about her. In fact, everything the eleven-year-old Akira did came from her inner loneliness, coupled with the memory of her father. She became addicted to Scrabble and gradually discovered her talent in this game. Akira's mother, who is busy raising a family and often neglects her, is puzzled by this and thinks she is not doing her job properly and wasting her time. Fortunately, Akira gets the support of a mysterious professor (played by Laurence Fishburne) and wins the school spelling bee all the way, and successfully gets the opportunity to participate in the national spelling bee. With talent and hard work, Akira found confidence and self-confidence in spelling bees, and met a strong opponent - an Asian boy. The two developed from mutual dislike of competition to mutual sympathy...