The Help – An exceptionally well made film

The Help – An exceptionally well made film

Tate Taylor’s ‘The Help’ is a 2011 comedy-drama film which was released on August 10^th, 2011. It is an adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s novel of the same name and features Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard and Octavia Spencer.

Distributed by Touchstone Pictures and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, ‘The Help’ centres on a young white woman – Skeeter Phelan (starred as Stone) and her relationship with two black maids: Aibileen (played by Davis) and Minny (starred by Spencer)
during the Civil rights movement of the 1960’s. Phelan decides to write a book detailing the African-American maid’s point of view on the white families for which they work and the hardships they go through daily basis.

The $25 million budgeted film takes place in Jackson, Mississippi and opened to positive reviews. It also became a massive box office success with gross of $203 million.

Review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes report that 76 percent of 194 critics gave it positive reviews, with an average rating of 7 out of 10. It states’ “Though arguably guilty of glossing over its racial themes, The Help rises on the strength of its cast
— particularly Viola Davis, whose performance is powerful enough to carry the film on its own.”

IMDB gave it a score of 8 out of 10 based from its 33,560 users while another review aggregator site, Metacritic, gave the movie a score of 62 out of 100.

New Yorker’s David Denby praised the movie by saying, “[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 it are so moving and well acted that any objections to what’s second-rate seem
to matter less as the movie goes on.”

Tom Long of the Detroit News gave it a score of B+ and declared, “Appalling, entertaining, touching and perhaps even a bit healing, The Help is an old-fashioned grand yarn of a film, the sort we rarely get these days.”

The Help is a must watch film for all art cinema lovers.

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