The Help

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Label: The Help

Statement of responsibility: Dreamworks Pictures and Reliance Entertainment present ; in association with Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi ; a 1492 Pictures/Harbinger Pictures production ; produced by Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan ; written for the screen and directed by Tate Taylor

Creator

Help (Motion picture : 2011)

Contributor

Actor

Composer

Newman, Thomas, 1955-

Director of photography

Goldblatt, Stephen, 1945-

Distributor

Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)

Editor of moving image work

Winborne, Hughes

Film director

Taylor, Tate

Film distributor

Touchstone Pictures

Film producer

Presenter

Production company

Publisher

Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm)

Screenwriter

Taylor, Tate

Subject

Genre

Language

Summary: In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer but turns her friends' lives and a small Mississippi town upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community

Awards note

Academy Awards, 2012: Best supporting actress (Spencer)
Golden Globes, 2012: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Spencer)
BAFTA Awards, 2012: Best supporting actress (Spencer)
Screen Actors Guild Awards, 2012: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role (Davis); Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (Spencer); Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Cataloging source: TEFMT

Characteristic: videorecording

Credits note: Music, Thomas Newman ; editor, Hughes Winborne ; director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt

Dewey number: 791.43/72

Intended audience: MPAA rating: PG-13, for thematic material

Language note: In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish, with optional subtitles in English for the hearing impaired, French or Spanish; closed-captioned; descriptive audio in English for the visually impaired

LC call number

PN1997.85
PN1997.2

LC item number

.H457 2011
.H457 2011

PerformerNote: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek, Allison Janney, Chris Lowell, Ahna O'Reilly, Mary Steenburgen

Runtime: 146

Technique: live action

Context

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The work The Help represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.