The Help

on Saturday I went to Birch Carroll and Coyle @ Carindale to see the movie "The help". it's the early 60's in an town called Jackson, Mississippi at the time of the Civil Rights era an young white woman named Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone) who is an journalist who also stands out from her friends because she has an job and does not have an racist attitude like Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard). Aspiring to be an writer after being uninspired by her job at the newspaper Skeeter try to interviews the black maids who worked for the white people raising their children for an book she is planning which they are reluctant but the first one who tells is Aibileen Clark( Viola Davis) who has spent her life raising white children and has lost her son and Minny Jackson(Octavia Spencer) whose outspokenness has gotten her fired many times whose reputation of being an difficult employee but makes up for it with her cooking skills and it's getting very interesting throughout the film with events like the assassination of President John F Kennedy and the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers. It's an excellent film and an excellent story which it's based on the book by Kathryn Stockett of the same name. Tate Taylor does the screen play as well as directing the film and producers are Chris Columbus, Michael barnathan and Brunson Green. it has excellent acting by Emma Stone who is just superb as Skeeter, Bryce Dallas Howard as Hilly, viola Davis as Aibileen, Octavia Spencer as Minny, Jessica Chastian as Celia,Allison Janney known for the TV show the West Wing as Skeeter's mother Charlotte, 2 former Oscar winners Sissy Spacek plays Hilly's Mother and Mary Steenburger as Elain Stein, Cecily Tyson as Constantine Bates and others. it's funny, sad and touching and it always fascinating to have those sort of films that have historical things and to understand how things were back in the 60's in the USA particularly the south. i give this 4 and a half stars and it's in the cinemas now