The read
A Balasaur Score of 76 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes 75%, Metacritic 62/100. Audiences rate it 19 points higher than critics do. Scores higher than 89% of the 6,965 2010s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 19 points higher than critics do.
9,254 audience votes
Key crew
- Tate TaylorDirector
- Tate TaylorScreenplay
- Thomas NewmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Emma StoneSkeeter Phelan
- Viola DavisAibileen Clark
- Bryce Dallas HowardHilly Holbrook
- Octavia SpencerMinny Jackson
- Jessica ChastainCelia Foote
- Ahna O'ReillyElizabeth Leefolt
- Allison JanneyCharlotte Phelan
- Anna CampJolene French
- Eleanor HenryMae Mobley
- Emma HenryMae Mobley
- Chris LowellStuart Whitworth
- Cicely TysonConstantine Jefferson
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