The Help (2011)
Country: US/IND/UAE
Technical: col 146m
Director: Tate Taylor
Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain
Synopsis:
In a Mississippi county in the early 1960s a young journalist breaks company with her high school contemporaries by embracing the plight of the black women who spend their lives thanklessly bringing up the children of the white and wealthy.
Review:
Well upholstered, winsomely played racial drama with strong throwbacks to the classic women's picture of the forties. The civil rights background is hazily sketched in at times (blacks and whites here share buses, if not bathrooms) and no major part is played by a man, making the perilous undertaking of Skeeter and her interviewees seem less threatening, the aftermath of the publication of the book switching tones subtly to Fried Green Tomatoes-style wicked revenge rather than queasy danger. Nevertheless this is for as long as it plays an entirely gripping and diverting foray into what Hollywood does well when it goes after the worthy dollar.
Country: US/IND/UAE
Technical: col 146m
Director: Tate Taylor
Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain
Synopsis:
In a Mississippi county in the early 1960s a young journalist breaks company with her high school contemporaries by embracing the plight of the black women who spend their lives thanklessly bringing up the children of the white and wealthy.
Review:
Well upholstered, winsomely played racial drama with strong throwbacks to the classic women's picture of the forties. The civil rights background is hazily sketched in at times (blacks and whites here share buses, if not bathrooms) and no major part is played by a man, making the perilous undertaking of Skeeter and her interviewees seem less threatening, the aftermath of the publication of the book switching tones subtly to Fried Green Tomatoes-style wicked revenge rather than queasy danger. Nevertheless this is for as long as it plays an entirely gripping and diverting foray into what Hollywood does well when it goes after the worthy dollar.
Country: US/IND/UAE
Technical: col 146m
Director: Tate Taylor
Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain
Synopsis:
In a Mississippi county in the early 1960s a young journalist breaks company with her high school contemporaries by embracing the plight of the black women who spend their lives thanklessly bringing up the children of the white and wealthy.
Review:
Well upholstered, winsomely played racial drama with strong throwbacks to the classic women's picture of the forties. The civil rights background is hazily sketched in at times (blacks and whites here share buses, if not bathrooms) and no major part is played by a man, making the perilous undertaking of Skeeter and her interviewees seem less threatening, the aftermath of the publication of the book switching tones subtly to Fried Green Tomatoes-style wicked revenge rather than queasy danger. Nevertheless this is for as long as it plays an entirely gripping and diverting foray into what Hollywood does well when it goes after the worthy dollar.