Crimes of Fashion
2004
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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 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 her...
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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 · “The Help,” Tate Taylor’s movie set in civil-rights-era Mississippi, shifts between black maids and their employers.
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 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 10, 2011 · The Help. Director: Tate Taylor; Genre: Drama; Running Time: 137 minutes; Rated PG-13 for thematic material. With: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain
Aug 10, 2011 · Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives--and a small Mississippi town--upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families.
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.
