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The Help
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4 Nominations / 1 Win
Year 2011
Director Tate Taylor
Writer Tate Taylor
Starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain
84th Academy Awards

The Help is a 2011 comedy-drama based on the novel by the same name. It stars Emma Stone as a journalist who writes a controversial book based on research of her relationships with black maids in the early 1960s in the South, and Viola Davis as one of the maids.

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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. Deeply moving, filled with poignancy, humor and hope, "The Help" is a timeless and universal story about the ability to create change.

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