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Name: The Help
Released: 2011-8-10
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Bryce Howard, Allison Janney, Octavia Spencer

The Help

PG-13
2h 26m
2011

76%

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The #1 New York Times bestseller by Kathryn Stockett comes to vivid life through the powerful performances of a phenomenal ensemble cast. Led by Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Bryce Dallas Howard, The Help is an inspirational, courageous and empowering story about very different, extraordinary women in the 1960s South who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project — one that breaks society’s rules and puts them all at risk. Filled with poignancy, humor and hope, The Help is a timeless, universal and triumphant story about the ability to create change.

Director:

Tate Taylor

Producer:

Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan

Writer:

Tate Taylor

Cast:

Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Bryce Howard, Allison Janney, Octavia Spencer, Emma Stone

Extras

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OVERALL DIRECTOR INTRO

Making Of

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The Making of The Help: From Friendship To Film

Featurette

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In Their Own Words: A Tribute To The Maids Of Mississippi

Deleted Scenes

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A Senator's Son

Music & More

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"The Living Proof" Music Video

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

76%

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.

Reviews

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Nadia Dalimonte

While the narrative includes Black characters’ perspectives, the writing holds them at a distance, not providing more in-depth character development overall.

This is a film that will expose you to horrible truths about a not-too-distant past and, in the end, makes you laugh and feel like there’s a happy ending, except there isn’t one. Not really.

The Help, a likely Best Picture nominee, has one of the best ensembles of the year.

"The Help" will make you laugh, cry, and contemplate how far we've come as a society, how much has radically changed since the 1960s and, given our current racial climate, reflect on how much more progress we need.

January 26, 2022

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Jack Fleischer

This movie is slick and mainstream; it's also funny and sweet, dramatic and pointed.

March 24, 2021

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