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Change begins with a whisper.
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.Read moreLess
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
The story
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Emma StoneSkeeter Phelan
Viola DavisAibileen Clark
Bryce Dallas HowardHilly Holbrook
Octavia SpencerMinny Jackson
Jessica ChastainCelia Foote
Ahna O'ReillyElizabeth Leefolt
Allison JanneyCharlotte Phelan
Anna CampJolene French
Eleanor HenryMae Mobley
Chris LowellStuart Whitworth
Cicely TysonConstantine JeffersonExplore the crew
- Producer
- Chris Columbus
- Director
- Tate Taylor
- Producer
- Michael Barnathan
- Producer
- Brunson Green
- Director of Photography
- Stephen Goldblatt
- Screenplay
- Tate Taylor
- Original Music Composer
- Thomas Newman
- Editor
- Hughes Winborne