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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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- Tate Taylor
- PG-13
- Viola Davis
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.
- Tate Taylor
- Manohla Dargis
- 146 min
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 · 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
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
