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The Help (2011)
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Genre: Drama
Release Date: August. 10,2011
Duration: 146min
Country: US
Original Language: en
Director: Tate Taylor
Plot: Despite her family's financial struggles and her desperate need for work, African-American maid Aibileen Clark, a middle-aged woman, has spent her life caring for white children. Her only son, Minny Jackson, is also African-American, and she recently lost him. Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, a young white woman, recently returned home after graduating from college only to discover that her childhood maid had vanished without explanation. All three of these stories work together to show how "the help" is the center of Jackson, Mississippi, life, but racial boundaries keep them at a remove.
Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain
Keywords: based on novel, racism, writer, exploitation, maid, mississippi river, racial segregation, southern belle, moral courage, ressentiment
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