Overview - The Help

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama

Runtime: 146 minutes

Homepage: The Help

Budget

$25,000,000.00

Revenue

$216,600,000.00

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: 1492 Pictures

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Harbinger Pictures

    Production country United States of America

Overview

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.

Cast

  • Name: Emma Stone

    Character: Skeeter Phelan

    Popularity: 4.4364

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  • Name: Viola Davis

    Character: Aibileen Clark

    Popularity: 3.9926

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  • Name: Bryce Dallas Howard

    Character: Hilly Holbrook

    Popularity: 2.9384

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  • Name: Octavia Spencer

    Character: Minny Jackson

    Popularity: 2.1306

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  • Name: Jessica Chastain

    Character: Celia Foote

    Popularity: 2.7215

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  • Name: Ahna O'Reilly

    Character: Elizabeth Leefolt

    Popularity: 0.3601

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  • Name: Allison Janney

    Character: Charlotte Phelan

    Popularity: 1.853

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  • Name: Anna Camp

    Character: Jolene French

    Popularity: 1.044

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