The Help

Name: The Help
Director: Tate Taylor
Released: 2011
Duration: 146 min
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain

2011 · 146 MIN · IMDB 8.1 · 509,329 VOTES · DIR. Tate Taylor

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,737 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:01:29 And did you know, as a girl growing up

00:06:35 She drunk hairspray or something.

00:11:10 I missed you all, too.

00:15:35 he'll get back in spades when y'all sell.

00:20:38 I read the other day about how some girls get unbalanced.

00:26:27 Don't you find that ironic, Miss Stein?

00:31:13 How about that?

00:38:12 Said I stole a candelabra.

00:44:18 I can get my point across a lot better writing them down.

00:50:17 What in the hell?

00:55:16 Damn it, Skeeter, I'm not gonna let you miss out on this

01:01:35 so William's cousin will just have to come pick you up himself.

01:06:57 and shoot me dead right here on this no-wax floor.

01:12:30 Did you also ask Miss Skeeter if you could borrow money?

01:18:00 Skeeter.

01:23:15 Good night. Good night.

01:31:21 so if you want a prayer of this getting read

01:37:38 Take me back?

01:44:17 Congratulations, Hilly!

01:49:29 That's just beautiful. Look at that.

01:57:46 That joke you pulled with Hilly with the toilets, that's funny.

02:04:54 and I know the doctor says it's some kind of last strength nonsense

02:11:55 I don't mean to rub salt in your wound

02:18:02 My boy, Treelore, always said we going to have a writer in the family one day.

Cast & Characters

Viola Davis Aibileen Clark Emma Stone Skeeter Phelan Octavia Spencer Minny Jackson Bryce Dallas Howard Hilly Holbrook Jessica Chastain Celia Foote Ahna O'Reilly Elizabeth Leefolt Allison Janney Charlotte Phelan Anna Camp Jolene French Eleanor Henry Mae Mobley Emma Henry Mae Mobley

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,737

Dialogue density11.9 lines / min

First line00:01:29

Final line02:18:02

Production Record

DirectorTate Taylor

LanguageEnglish

Budget$25,000,000

Revenue$216,600,000

IMDb votes509,329