NAACP Special Screening: "The Help"
Director: Tate Taylor
Writers: Tate Taylor (screenplay), Kathryn Stockett (novel)
Dreamworks [United States]
Opens in Theatres August 10, 2011
Vic Bulluck, Executive DirectorNAACP, Hollywood Bureau
Viola Davis, Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett, Bryce Dallas Howard
Kathryn Stockett, Bryce Dallas Howard
Kathryn Stockett, Bryce Dallas Howard
Tate Taylor
Vic Bulluck, Myrlie Evers-Williams
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Myrlie Evers-Williams, Viola Davis
Synopsis: The Help stars Emma Stone as Skeeter, Academy Award®–nominated Viola Davis as Aibileen and Octavia Spencer as Minny—three very different, extraordinary women in Mississippi during the 1960s, who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project that breaks societal rules and puts them all at risk. From their improbable alliance a remarkable sisterhood emerges, instilling all of them with the courage to transcend the lines that define them, and the realization that sometimes those lines are made to be crossed—even if it means bringing everyone in town face-to-face with the changing times.