The messages delivered here are more about being a proper human than anything else, and that's a reminder we could all use.

"Once I Was a Beehive" is not a movie that's apt to impress grumpy critics. But then they aren't the target audience.

Once I Was a Beehive is what faith-inspired films should be - showing how to live and love and simply be in a life where tragedies happen and things break and sometimes life really, really hurts and it's our faith that we have to hold onto.

Religious camp comedy is hokey but heartfelt and fun.