Search results
Aug 9, 2011 · Presenting itself as the story of how African-American maids in the South viewed their employers during Jim Crow days, it is equally the story of how they empowered a young white woman to write a best-seller about them, and how that book transformed the author's mother.
Aug 7, 2011 · ‘The Help’: Film Review. Actresses Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer dominate Tate Taylor's adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's civil-rights era novel about Southern maids and their testy...
In 1960s Mississippi, Southern society girl Skeeter (Emma Stone) returns from college with dreams of being a writer. She turns her small town on its ear by choosing to interview the Black women ...
- (235)
- Drama
- PG-13
This is an incredible film that not only pays justice to the bestseller on which it's based (according to those who have read the book AND seen the film), but is phenomenally cast, with exceptional performances by Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard and Allison Janney.
Aug 9, 2011 · “The Help,” Tate Taylor’s movie set in civil-rights-era Mississippi, shifts between black maids and their employers.
Aug 10, 2011 · “The Help” is a delicious peppery stew of home-cooked, 1960s Southern-style racism that serves up a soulful dish of what ails us and what heals us.
Aug 10, 2011 · An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis. Director. Tate Taylor.
The Help works beautifully as an entertaining film about a troubling period in American history and the people who were impacted by it. Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 10, 2020
Aug 7, 2011 · A stirring black-empowerment tale that personalizes the civil rights movement through the testimony of domestic servants working in Jackson, Miss., circa 1963.
A stirring black-empowerment tale aimed squarely at white audiences, The Help personalizes the civil rights movement through the testimony of domestic servants working in Jackson, Miss., circa 1963.
