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09/08/2011 Drama 2h 26m
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Change begins with a whisper.

Overview

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

  1. Tate Taylor

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Emma Stone

    Skeeter Phelan

  2. Viola Davis

    Aibileen Clark

  3. Bryce Dallas Howard

    Hilly Holbrook

  4. Octavia Spencer

    Minny Jackson

  5. Jessica Chastain

    Celia Foote

  6. Ahna O'Reilly

    Elizabeth Leefolt

  7. Allison Janney

    Charlotte Phelan

  8. Anna Camp

    Jolene French

  9. Eleanor Henry

    Mae Mobley

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-02-08
I hadn’t quite realised the extent to which racial segregation laws permeated into every day life, especially when a black person couldn't cut a white child’s hair or write anything remotely disparaging about their white brethren. “Skeeter” (Emma Stone) returns from college and decides there might be a way around this. She will write the book, but a selection of women from their Mississippi homes will provide the meat for this literary sandwich. These women are maids who all have stories to tell, but she faces quite a battle convincing them to spill any beans. That’s partly from loya...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$25,000,000.00

Revenue
$216,600,000.00

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