The Help

Wonderful movie. LOVED it!

An often very funny movie set in a terribly non-funny time and place. Quite the moving film. It's a must-see film.

Amazing how these ignorant bigots would allow blacks to cook their food, but not use their toilets, or they would catch some "colored disease." So many whites trivialize how these people were treated, but if whites were treated the same way, they would scream "It's the Apocalypse!" The one who commented "sucks!" must be one of the "God Bless The White Race Above All Others" supremecists.

Marginalization is a terrible evil and nowhere is this more poignantly expressed than in the movie, The Help. The movie focuses on the lives of the black helps and their white employers in a Southern America that is still under the influence of the Jim Crow laws. It explores the relationships that form between an empathetic young white woman and two black helps as they undertake the daunting and illegal prospect of writing a collection of the experiences of the helps in Mississippi. The movie also focuses almost exclusively on women, having few male actors and none that star prominently. Viola Davis fails to disappoint in her role as Aibileen, a black help who has raised the children of many of her employers even after she loses her son. She helps to communicate the emotional burden of being a black help amidst all the crushing racism even as Olivia Spencer portrays the more humorous role as Minny, Aibileen's friend. Perhaps what is most memorable is  the scene in which Minny serves her former employer a baked pie filled with her own excrement and utters words immemorial "eat my shit". The movie which is based on a novel of the the same name by Kathryn Stockett is a fantastic work, beautifully written and excellently portrayed.
- @TheEccentric of the Teen Review Board of the Hamilton Public Library

Really very good. Strong cast, well paced, great writing. Snapshot of the very racist Mississippi in the 60s, its difficult territory, deftly handled. Recommend.

Loved the audiobook and the movie really brought it to life. Octavia Spencer deserved every one of the awards she earned for her fabulous performance including: BAFTA, Golden Globe, SAG, Critics' Choice, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Kathryn Stockett really captured the trials of the maids as well as trying to be a career woman in the 60's.

Even better on second viewing.

What a powerhouse group of top women actors! This is a not widely recognized gem well worth seeing.

Never realized all the indignities Southern black maids had to endure. Strange how the maids were expected to clean the toilets but weren't allowed to use them. I give Skeeter a lot of credit in having the courage to expose what was orally wrong.

I loved this movie! Worth watching more than once!