# The Help (2011)

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**Runtime**: 146 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Tate Taylor
**Written by**: Tate Taylor
**Starring**: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O'Reilly

> *Change begins with a whisper.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Jackson, Mississippi, summer heat, a worn-out typewriter. 
African-American maids and their white employers, a delicate dance of power and dependency, separate lives intertwined. 
Tate Taylor situates the viewer in 1960s America.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, tender

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 8.1/10 (524627 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 75% · Metacritic 62/100

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