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"The Help" is a safe film about a volatile subject. 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 10, 2011 · 76% Tomatometer 235 Reviews 89% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings In 1960s Mississippi, Southern society girl Skeeter (Emma Stone) returns from college with dreams of being a writer. She turns...
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- Tate Taylor
- PG-13
- Viola Davis
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...
Aug 9, 2011 · Directed by Tate Taylor. Drama. PG-13. 2h 26m. By Manohla Dargis. Aug. 9, 2011. There’s a scene in “The Help,” the new movie based on Kathryn Stockett’s novel, that cracks open the early-’60s...
- Tate Taylor
- Manohla Dargis
- 146 min
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.
An uplifting, feel-good movie. Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 30, 2020. Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com. The Help works beautifully as an entertaining film about a troubling...
Aug 10, 2011 · The Help: Directed by Tate Taylor. With Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer. 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.
