The help

Resource Information

The work The help represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The help

Statement of responsibility

director/screenwriter, Tate Taylor ; producer, Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan

Contributor

• Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Barnathan, Michael
• Chastain, Jessica, 1981-
• Columbus, Chris
• Davis, Viola, 1965-
• Green, Brunson
• Howard, Bryce Dallas, 1981-
• Spacek, Sissy
• Spencer, Octavia
• Stockett, Kathryn
• Stone, Emma, 1988-
• Taylor, Tate
• Tyson, Cicely
• Vogel, Mike

Subject

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• African American women -- Drama
• African American women household employees -- Drama
• Civil rights movements -- Drama
• Academy Award Nominations 2011
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Housekeepers -- Mississippi -- Drama
• Jackson (Miss.) -- Drama
• Social problem films
• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities

Genre

• Video recordings for people with visual disabilities
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Social problem films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community

Member of

• Help (Motion picture : 2011)

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Cinematographer, Stephen Goldblatt ; composer (music score), Thomas Newman

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

• MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic material.
• CHV rating: PG; for mature theme, language may offend

Language note

• English (5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio), French (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound) dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); video descriptions for people with visual disabilities

LC call number

PN1997.2

LC item number

.H45 2011

PerformerNote

Bryce Dallas Howard, Cicely Tyson, Emma Stone, Jessica Chastain, Mike Vogel, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, Sissy Spacek

Runtime

146

Technique

live action