ReelViewsPerhaps the greatest benefit offered by The Help is that it aids in remembering. Race relations have changed so radically in...
The New York Times Save for Ms. Davis's, the performances are almost all overly broad, sometimes excruciatingly so, characterized by loud laugh...
Rolling StoneThe Help is an exhilarating gift, a deeply touching human story filled with humor and heartbreak, and sublime performances f...
Los Angeles Times'The Help' is an excellent adaptation of the bestselling novel about an unlikely rebellion in a Southern town in the 1960s a...
Washington PostIn other words, they were helping themselves. And, on screen at least, their story remains largely untold.
The Philadelphia InquirerLike its characters, it has its faults. But overall, it is a movie of imaginative sympathy that gets into the skin of its ch...
Salon ArtsKathryn Stockett's bestseller hits the screen, and its fable of Jim Crow-era Mississippi hits close to home.
The New Yorker"The Help" is, in some ways, crude and obvious, but it opens up a broad new swath of experience on the screen, and parts of ...
Wall Street Journal"The Help" takes us on a pop-cultural tour that savors the picturesque, and strengthens stereotypes it purports to shatter.
E! OnlineAn entertaining adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's bestseller, this early '60s, Mississippi-set dramedy follows three seemingl...
New York Daily NewsPeriod piece take on Kathryn Stockett's novel oversimplifies, miscasts Emma Stone
Chicago Sun-Times"The Help" is a safe film about a volatile subject. Presenting itself as the story of how African-American maids in the Sout...
Entertainment WeeklyThe Help, an emotionally enveloping, sharply alive big-canvas adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's powerful 2009 novel, is roote...
Collideryou’re going to find a thoughtful movie that goes beyond the clichés of the Civil Rights Era drama and instead finds a touch...
Hollywood ReporterThis self-conscious and self-congratulatory portrait of the Jim Crow South does at least contain two magnificent, award-wort...
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Director: Tate Taylor
Writer: Tate Taylor
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures
Cast: Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer
Release: August 12, 2011
Writer: Tate Taylor
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures
Cast: Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer
Release: August 12, 2011
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