Introducing The Help
The Help has become one of the most captivating and talked about books in years. Dream Works Studios, Participant Media and Touchstone Pictures are going one step further and making Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling book a movie. For the past 60 weeks, The Help
The Help shows what happens when a southern town’s unspoken code of rules is shattered by 3 courageous women who become fast friends.
Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, the film features Skeeter, a southern society girl who 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. Despite Skeeter’s life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories—and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges—but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly—and unwillingly—caught up in the changing times.
ABOUT THE CAST:
Emma Stone, Zombieland, will be playing Skeeter while two-time Tony® winner and recent Oscar® nominee Viola Davis (“Eat Pray Love”) will be giving life to the character of Aibileen. If you’re a Twilight fan you will be happy to see Bryce Dallas Howard in the roll of Hilly, the Junior League President whose obsession with maintaining the social status quo pushes everyone to their breaking point. Octavia Spencer is headstrong Minnie, Aibileen’s hot-tempered best friend, whose blatant honesty is always getting her in trouble. Jessica Chastain is Celia, the outcast from the wrong side of the tracks who marries a man above her “station” and whose desperation to fit in with polite society hides a painful secret.
Tate Taylor, a childhood friend of the author’s, is directing the film from a script he wrote. Brunson Green is producing along with 1492’s Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan. The film’s executive producers are Tate Taylor, Mark Radcliffe, Dean Jones, Nate Berkus, Jennifer Blum, Jeff Skoll and Mohamed Khalaf Al-Mazrouei.
Watch It
Filming begins this summer in Greenwood, Mississippi, and will be released in theaters in 2011 and YOU have the chance to visit the set of the movie and meet the all star cast! iVillage is offering one lucky person who enters the chance to win a trip to the set to meet the actors/actresses. Run and enter. If you win make sure you let me know so I can pack myself in your suitcase.
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