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Powered by JustWatch. "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 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
89% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings. What to know. Critics Consensus. Though it fails to fully engage with its racial themes, The Help rises on the strength of its cast -- particularly Viola...
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- Tate Taylor
- PG-13
- Viola Davis
Oct 27, 2011 · The Help – review. Airbrushed fairytale it may be, but The Help's account of the push for racial equality in 1960s Mississippi is rousingly effective. Xan Brooks. @XanBrooks. L et's clear...
- Xan Brooks
Aug 7, 2011 · August 7, 2011 12:01am. The Help Film Still Emma Octavia Viola - H 2012. In his first major studio production, The Help, writer-director Tate Taylor enters a minefield of sociological,...
Aug 10, 2011 · Entertainment & Arts. Movie review: ‘The Help’. By Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times Film Critic. Aug. 10, 2011 12 AM PT. “The Help” is a delicious peppery stew of home-cooked, 1960s...
Aug 10, 2011 · Adam R. Holz. Movie Review. Sometimes what you plan to do and what actually happens are two very different things. Take the case of Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan. When the recent college grad returns to her hometown of Jackson, Miss., in the early 1960s, she’s not looking to challenge the status quo or stir up trouble. But she does anyway.