Movie: The Help (2011)

The Help posterThe Help is a thought provoking southern drama starring Eugenia Skeeter Phelan (Emma Stone).

This Dreamworks production is based off of the bestselling New York Times novel written by Kathryn Stockett. Taking place in Mississippi during 1960′s, Skeeter is a young aspiring writer/journalist who strikes up controversy by writing about the lives of black women who are employed by rich white families during the Civil Rights Movement, a hypocritical time when Black women were entrusted with raising white babies but still had to ride the back of the bus.

During this process she becomes friends with Aibileen (Viola Davis, one of the women so employed and together with other women in town coming forward to share their stories.

With roles played by Sissy Spacek, Cicely Tyson and Bryce Dallas Howard, this heart moving saga is set to hit theaters August 2011, so watch for trailers.

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