The Help

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Drama

Media

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

Details

Status: Released
Release date: August 9, 2011
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Production: 1492 Pictures,Touchstone Pictures,Harbinger Pictures
Cast: Emma Stone,Viola Davis,Bryce Dallas Howard,Octavia Spencer,Jessica Chastain,Ahna O'Reilly,Allison Janney,Anna Camp,Eleanor Henry,Emma Henryand 45 more
Director: Tate Taylor
Writer: Tate Taylor,Kathryn Stockett,Damon Thomas
Producer: Chris Columbus,Michael Barnathan,Brunson Green,Mark Radcliffe,Jennifer Blum,Jeff Skoll,Mohamed Khalaf Al-Mazrouei,John Norris,Tate Taylor,L. Dean Jones Jr.,Nate Berkus
Cinematography: Stephen Goldblatt
Music: Thomas Newman
Budget: $25,000,000
Revenue: $216,600,000
IMDb: tt1454029