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The Help is a 2011 American drama film directed and written by Tate Taylor, and adapted from Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel of the same name. Featuring an ensemble cast, the film is about a young white woman, Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, and her relationship with two black maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, during the Civil Rights era in 1963 Jackson, Mississippi. Skeeter is a journalist who decides to write a book from the point of view of the maids (referred to as "the help"), exposing the racism they are faced with as they work for white families.The film stars Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O'Reilly, Chris Lowell, Sissy Spacek, Mike Vogel, Cicely Tyson, LaChanze, and Allison Janney. Produced by DreamWorks Pictures and released by Touchstone Pictures, the film opened to positive reviews and became a commercial success with a worldwide box office gross of $216.6 million against its budget of $25 million.
Movie Details :
Directed by :Tate Taylor
Produced by :Chris Columbus,Michael Barnathan,Brunson Green,
Written by :Tate Taylor
Based on: The Help, by Kathryn Stockett,
Starring: Emma Stone,Viola Davis,Octavia Spencer,Jessica Chastain,
Bryce Dallas Howard,Allison Janney,
Music by :Thomas Newman
Cinematography: Stephen Goldblatt
Edited by :Hughes Winborne
Production company :Touchstone Pictures,DreamWorks Pictures,Reliance Entertainment,Participant Media,Image Nation,1492 Pictures,
Distributed by :Walt Disney Studios,Motion Pictures,
Release dates :August 9, 2011 (Beverly Hills premiere),August 10, 2011,
Running time: 146 minutes
Country :United States
Language :English
Story About :
The Help:In 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi, Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis) is a 50-year-old black maid spending her life raising white children after the death of her only son from an industrial accident. She works for the Leefolt family, principally taking care of the children of Elizabeth Leefolt, a young woman gripped with postpartum depression who refuses to acknowledge her daughter except when disciplining her. Aibileen's best friend is Minny Jackson (Octavia Spencer), an outspoken black maid who has long worked for Hilly Holbrook's (Bryce Dallas Howard) mother, Mrs. Walters (Sissy Spacek), to the point that they are very comfortable with each other. Minny's stormy temper is tolerated due to respect for her great cooking skills. Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone) is an independent thinking young white woman returning to the family plantation after graduating from the University of Mississippi[3] to find that her beloved childhood maid, Constantine (Cicely Tyson), has quit while she was away. She is perplexed as she believes Constantine would not have left without writing her and it is revealed that Constantine was actually fired; Skeeter's mother Charlotte (Allison Janney) refuses to accept her daughter's sincere shock as little more than overreaction and further refuses to give the reason why Constantine was fired.While Skeeter's social group attended college to find husbands, Skeeter herself earned a double-major degree and remains single, much to Charlotte's chagrin, and aspires to a successful writing career. She begins making inroads towards this goal when she lands a job with the local paper as a "homemaker hints" columnist, asking Elizabeth if Aibileen could help her in answering the letters; after gaining permission from Elizabeth (who in turn "gained permission" from Hilly) and approaching Aibileen herself, the maid agrees. Upon spending time with Aibileen one-on-one, Skeeter becomes increasingly uncomfortable with the attitude of her white socialite female friends towards their "help", especially after learning of Hilly's "Home Help Sanitation Initiative", a desire to have passed into legislation mandatory separate toilets for black domestic help because "black people carry different diseases than white people".