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  1. 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.

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    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. Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determine...

    In Jackson, Mississippi, in the 60's, the aspirant writer Skeeter Phelan has just graduated and returns home after finding a job writing in a futile newspaper column in the local newspaper. When she arrives home, she finds that her nanny and family's maid Constantine Jefferson is gone. Skeeter sees the chance of writing a book about the relationshi...

    The time, the early 1960's, the place, Jackson, Mississippi. Eugenia Phalen - Skeeter to her friends and family - has just graduated from Ole Miss and has returned home in part to take care of her seriously ill mother. Unlike her female friends and colleagues who used their Ole Miss time solely to find a husband, Skeeter, who has never dated or had...

  2. The Help focuses on maids during the Civil Rights Movement in 1963. It brings light to Medgar Evers , an African-American activist and NAACP leader, who worked toward gaining rights for African-Americans at the time, as well as aiding in the fight to end segregation.

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  3. Screenplay. 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 ...

  4. Aug 10, 2011 · Based on the critically acclaimed No. 1 New York Times best-selling debut novel by Kathryn Stockett, The Help, adapted for the screen and directed by Tate Taylor, chronicles the relationship between three different and extraordinary women in 1960s Mississippi, who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project that breaks societal ...

  5. Oct 29, 2011 · Sat 29 Oct 2011 19.06 EDT. B ased on a bestselling novel, The Help tells the story of Skeeter (Emma Stone), a young Mississippi woman with serious literary aspirations turning against her...

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