The Help (2011)
August 9, 2011
Drama
2h 26m
Change begins with a whisper.
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
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Cast & Crew
- Director
- Tate Taylor
- Skeeter Phelan Emma Stone
- Aibileen Clark Viola Davis
- Hilly Holbrook Bryce Dallas Howard
- Minny Jackson Octavia Spencer
- Celia Foote Jessica Chastain
- Elizabeth Leefolt Ahna O'Reilly
- Charlotte Phelan Allison Janney
- Jolene French Anna Camp
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Keywords
- based on novel or book
- mississippi river
- exploitation
- racial segregation
- racism
- writer
- maid
- moral courage
- ressentiment
- southern belle
- racial issues
- 1960s
- newspaper columnist
- desperate
- cautionary
- authoritarian