Title: The Help
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Languages: English
Genres: Drama,
Runtime: 2:26:00 Hour
Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard
Directors: Tate Taylor
MPA Rating: PG-13
Rating: 8.2 (9268 Votes)
TomatoMeter: 76 %
Audiance Score: 89 %
Critics Consensus: Though it fails to fully engage with its racial themes, The Help rises on the strength of its cast -- particularly Viola Davis, whose performance is powerful enough to carry the film on its own.
Year: 2011
Summary: 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.