In the powerful movie, Ulee's Gold, Peter Fonda plays a tired man who is a beekeeper by day. He runs the old family business of collecting and selling the golden honey that pays the bills. It is exhausting work for a man now in his late sixties. Ulee does most of it by himself because he cannot afford to hire someone to help him. He maintains and moves the hives, gathers the trays, separates the honey from the wax, spins the final product into jars, and ships it off to market. He worries about the ebb and flow of money offered by his distributor and doesn't sleep well at night. You can almost watch the spirit drain out of Ulee as the movie progresses. 

But what really causes Ulee to worry is his daughter and her children. His daughter is in and out of drug treatment facilities and long ag…