The Help, starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia
Spencer and Bryce Dallas Howard. Directed by Tat Taylor. Library
Call Number: PN1995.9.N4H45 2011.
Kathryn Stockett’s book was on the bestseller
list longer than any title since the Da
Vinci Code, so it was only natural that it would become a movie. In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern
society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her
friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to
interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent
southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first
to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. The
casting of Emma Stone and Bryce Dallas Howard as the southern white women and
Tony-Award winning Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer in the two major roles of
the maids, makes this movie worth seeing.
Spencer went on to win the Critic’s Choice Award, the Golden Globe, the
Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA and Oscar for her role in the Help, one of
only nine actors in history to win all in a single year.
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