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The Help (2011)

PG-13 | 146 min | Drama

An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

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Emma Stone

Skeeter Phelan
Viola Davis

Aibileen Clark
Bryce Dallas Howard

Hilly Holbrook
Octavia Spencer

Minny Jackson
Jessica Chastain

Celia Foote
Ahna O'Reilly

Elizabeth Leefolt
Allison Janney

Charlotte Phelan
Anna Camp

Jolene French
Eleanor Henry

Mae Mobley
Emma Henry

Mae Mobley
Chris Lowell

Stuart Whitworth
Cicely Tyson

Constantine Jefferson
Mike Vogel

Johnny Foote
Sissy Spacek

Missus Walters
Brian Kerwin

Robert Phelan

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Director:

Tate Taylor

Writers:

Tate Taylor (screenplay), Kathryn Stockett (novel)

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Won 1 Oscar.

Another 79 wins & 116 nominations.

Top Rated Movies #239

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The film features six Oscar winners: Sissy Spacek for The Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Mary Steenburgen for Melvin and Howard (1980), Octavia Spencer for this film, Emma Stone for La La Land (2016), Viola Davis for Fences (2016) and Allison Janney ... ...

Quotes

Aibileen Clark: I was born 1911, Chicksaw County, Piedmont Plantation.
Woman: And did you know as a girl growing up that one day you'd be a maid?
Aibileen Clark: Yes ma'am, I did.
Woman: And you knew that because...
Aibileen Clark: My mama was a maid. My grandmama was a house slave.
Woman: "house slave..." Did you ...

Goofs

(at around 45 mins) When Skeeter drives into downtown Jackson at the beginning of the film there is a Triumph Motorcycle parked in the background. The color scheme of the motorcycle's tank is the same as the factory color scheme from a 1970 Triumph Tiger 650. The movie takes place around 1962-1963.