She works for socialite Elizabeth Leefolt, raising her two-year-old daughter Mae Mobley, whom Elizabeth emotionally neglects. In 1963, narrator Aibileen Clark is an African-American domestic worker in Jackson, Mississippi. The film also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The Help received four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Actress for Davis, and Best Supporting Actress for both Chastain and Spencer, with the latter winning the award. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $216 million worldwide and receiving positive reviews from critics, who mostly praised the acting (particularly that of Davis, Spencer and Chastain), though the film's depiction of race drew some criticism as having a white savior narrative. The Help premiered at Beverly Hills on Augand went into general theatrical release in North America on August 10 by Touchstone Pictures. The film is an international co-production between companies based in the United States, India, and the United Arab Emirates. The film's casting began later that month, with principal photography following four months after in Mississippi. "The Help" brings to light the challenges and discrimination that African American people faced.ĭreamWorks Pictures acquired the screen rights to Stockett's novel in March 2010 and quickly commissioned the film with Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan, and Brunson Green as producers. Black domestic workers in 1960s America were referred to as "the help", hence the title of the journalistic exposé, the novel and the film. In an attempt to become a legitimate journalist and writer, Skeeter decides to write a book from the point of view of the maids, exposing the racism they face as they work for white families. The story focuses on her relationship with two black maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, during the Civil Rights Movement in 1963 Jackson, Mississippi. The film and novel recount the story of a young white woman and aspiring journalist Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan. The film features an ensemble cast, including Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Allison Janney and Sissy Spacek. The Help is a 2011 period drama film written and directed by Tate Taylor and based on Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel of the same name.
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