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Aug 9, 2011 · “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 7, 2011 · 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 ...
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- Tate Taylor
- PG-13
- Viola Davis
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
Aug 10, 2011 · Emma Stone and Viola Davis star in the film adaption of Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel about a white woman who sets out to tell the story of black domestic servants...
Parents need to know that The Help is an emotionally intense adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's best-selling civil rights-era novel. It isn't likely to appeal to young kids, but it's a historically relevant drama that mature tweens and teens can see with their parents.
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.
