Viola Davis
Aibileen
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Synopsis. In civil-rights era Jackson, Mississippi, 23-year-old Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan ( Emma Stone ), a recent graduate of the University of Mississippi and an aspiring writer, attends a bridge game at the home of her friend Elizabeth Leefolt ( Ahna O'Reilly ).
The Help is a 2011 period drama film written and directed by Tate Taylor and based on Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel of the same name. The film features an ensemble cast, including Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Allison Janney, Cicely Tyson, and Sissy Spacek.
- $216.6 million
- Thomas Newman
- $25 million
Aug 9, 2011 · A feel-good fable about how African-American maids in the South empowered a young white woman to write a best-seller about them in Jim Crow days. The film stars Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone and Bryce Dallas Howard, and is based on Kathryn Stockett's novel.
The Help Summary. The Help focuses on three women in 1960s Jackson Mississippi: Aibileen, who works as a nanny and housekeeper for the Leefolt family; Minny, an outspoken maid; and Skeeter, a recent college graduate. Skeeter longs to pursue a career in writing that will take her beyond the stifling confines of her refined white southern society.
Aug 10, 2011 · 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.
- Tate Taylor
- 673
- 3 min
Plot summary. The Help is set in the early 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, and told primarily from the first-person perspectives of three women: Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan. Aibileen is a maid who takes care of children and cleans.
Movie Info. 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...
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- Drama
- PG-13
