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The Help (2011)

The Help (2011)

Drama

Change begins with a whisper.

Release Date: 2011, August 9
Directors: Tate Taylor
Countries: United States of America
Production: 1492 Pictures, Harbinger Pictures
Cast: Anna Camp, Carol Lee, Ashley Johnson, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Ritchie Montgomery, Wes Chatham

Overview:

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 white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

Keywords:

based on novel or book writer racism dramatic cautionary maid 1960s desperate mississippi river exploitation racial segregation moral courage ressentiment southern belle racial issues newspaper columnist