Movie of the Week: ‘Ulee’s Gold’

Ulee’s Gold arrived in theatres 26 years ago today, June 13, 1997, and to celebrate writer/director Victor Nunez’s smalltown USA drama – about an ordinary beekeeper (Peter Fonda) forced to cope with a troubling family crisis – “Ulee’s Gold” is AHFW’s Movie of the Week. Fonda stars as Ulee, a widower who rather keep to himself in his modest Florida home and wrestle with his demons while caring for his bees in their apiaries.  Instead, his grown son (Tom Wood) sits in prison and his wife (Christine Dunford) left their…