The Help

Drama
4 stars
Very good. Based on the bestselling book (that I never got to read!), Emma Stone stars as a young white woman in 1963 Jackson Mississippi who wants to write a book from the perspective of the black women employed by her peers who cook, clean and raise their children for less than minimum wage. I guess I’d have to read the book to find out why these woman who are loved by the children they raise, are then treated so badly by those same children once they are grown? And were those debutantes really such superficial caricatures in real life? I can’t compare the movie to the book, but I can tell you that the people in my theater applauded after it finished. Bring tissues. I really liked this movie.