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The Help [DVD]
The Help [DVD]
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Brand WALT DISNEY PICTURES
Director Tate Taylor
AudienceRating Suitable for 12 years and over
Manufacturer Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
ReleaseDate 2012-03-12

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There are male viewers who will enjoy The Help, but Mississippi native Tate Taylor aims his adaptation squarely at the female readers who made Kathryn Stockett's novel a bestseller. If the multi-character narrative revolves around race relations in the Kennedy-era South, the perspective belongs to the women. Veteran maid Aibileen (Doubt's Viola Davis in an Oscar-worthy performance) provides the heartfelt narration that brackets the story. A widow devastated by the death of her son, she takes pride in the 17 children she has helped to raise, but she's hardly fulfilled. That changes when Skeeter (Easy A's Emma Stone) returns home after college. Unlike her peers, Skeeter wants to work, so she gets a job as a newspaper columnist. But she really longs to write about Jackson's domestics, so she meets with Aibileen in secret--after much cajoling and the promise of anonymity. When Aibileen's smart-mouthed friend Minny (breakout star Octavia Spencer) breaches her uptight employer's protocol, Hilly (Bryce Dallas Howard) gives her the boot, and she ends up in the employ of local outcast Celia (Jessica Chastain, hilarious and heartbreaking), who can't catch a break due to her dirt-poor origins. After the murder of Medgar Evers, even more maids, Minny among them, bring their stories to Skeeter, leading to a book that scandalizes the town--in a good way. Not since Steel Magnolias has Hollywood produced a Southern woman's picture more likely to produce buckets of tears (and almost as many laughs). --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Actor Emma Stone,Bryce Dallas Howard,Viola Davis,Octavia Spencer,Jessica Chastain
AspectRatio 16:9 - 1.85:1
AudienceRating Suitable for 12 years and over
Binding DVD
Brand WALT DISNEY PICTURES
Creator Emma Stone,Bryce Dallas Howard
Director Tate Taylor
EAN 8717418337223
Format PAL
Label Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Manufacturer Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
MPN 8717418337223
ProductGroup DVD
Publisher Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
RegionCode 2
ReleaseDate 2012-03-12
RunningTime 140
SKU 8717418337223
Studio Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Title The Help [DVD]
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