Based on Kathryn Stockett's bestselling novel, THE HELP is an unexpectedly amusing film about a segment of American history rarely explored on the big screen: the daily lives of African-American maids in the segregated South.
The story pulls you in from the get-go and may make you shed tears as its misty moments increase proportionally to the characters' raised stakes. Some performances are sure to receive recognition come Oscar season, although the one character who’s lacking — and my primary complaint about the film as a whole — is Emma Stone's "Skeeter," a sort of Erin Brockovich without the sex appeal.
The year is 1963 and Eugenia Phelan (a.k.a. Skeeter) has returned home to Jackson, Mississippi after graduating from Ole Miss with a journalism degree. She moves in with her ailing mother Charlotte (Allison Janney), hiding the effects of chemo with an array of ugly wigs and determined to marry off her only daughter before she dies.
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