The Help (2011)

 

Release date: August 10, 2011

Director: Tate Taylor

Writer: Tate Taylor

Starring: Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer

Estimated budget: $25 million

U.S. Box Office: $169.7 million

Foreign: $46.9 million

Worldwide: $216.6 million

 

In 1960s Mississippi, Southern society girl Skeeter (Emma Stone) returns from college with dreams of being a writer. She turns her small town on its ear by choosing to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent white families. Only Aibileen (Viola Davis), the housekeeper of Skeeter's best friend, will talk at first. But as the pair continue the collaboration, more women decide to come forward, and as it turns out, they have quite a lot to say.