get special price for The Help (2011) DVD.You can choose to buy The Help (2011) DVD at the Best Price with Secure Transaction Here...





other Customer Rating:

List Price: $29.99
Price: $17.49 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details
You Save: $12.50 (42%)


read more Details

There are male viewers that will enjoy The Help, but Mississippi native Tate Taylor aims his adaptation squarely on the female readers who made Kathryn Stockett's novel a bestseller. If your multi-character narrative requires race relations within the Kennedy-era South, the perspective belongs to the women. Veteran maid Aibileen (Doubt's Viola Davis in a Oscar-worthy performance) provides the heartfelt narration that brackets the story. A widow devastated through the death of her son, she takes pride inside 17 children she has helped to raise, but she's hardly fulfilled. That changes when Skeeter (Easy A's Emma Stone) returns home after college. Unlike her peers, Skeeter really wants to work, so she turns into a job like a newspaper columnist. But she really longs to publish about Jackson's domestics, so she meets with Aibileen in secret--after much cajoling as well as the promise of anonymity. When Aibileen's smart-mouthed friend Minny (breakout star Octavia Spencer) breaches her uptight employer's protocol, Hilly (Bryce Dallas Howard) gives her the boot, and he or she ends up inside employ of local outcast Celia (Jessica Chastain, hilarious and heartbreaking), who can't catch some slack because of her dirt-poor origins. After the murder of Medgar Evers, even more maids, Minny among them, bring their stories to Skeeter, bringing about a novel that scandalizes the town--in a great way. Not since Steel Magnolias has Hollywood produced a Southern woman's picture more inclined to produce buckets of tears (and almost as many laughs). --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Related Products

The Book 

      

The Music


More From Kathryn Stockett


More From the Stars of The Help

Emma Stone

      
Viola Davis

Bryce Dallas Howard

The #1 Ny Times bestseller by Kathryn Stockett involves vivid life over the powerful performances of your phenomenal ensemble cast. Led by Emma Stone, Academy Award®-nominated Viola Davis (Best Supporting Actress, Doubt, 2008), Octavia Spencer and Bryce Dallas Howard, The Help is definitely an inspirational, courageous and empowering story about very different, extraordinary women in the 1960s South who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project — one which breaks society’s rules and puts them all at risk. Filled with poignancy, humor and hope — and handle with compelling, never-before-seen bonus features — The Help can be a timeless, universal and triumphant story in relation to its the ability to generate change.