The Help

Synopsis

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.

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Cast

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  Emma Stone
  Skeeter Phelan

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  Viola Davis
  Aibileen Clark

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  Bryce Dallas Howard
  Hilly Holbrook

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  Octavia Spencer
  Minny Jackson

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  Jessica Chastain
  Celia Foote

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  Ahna O'Reilly
  Elizabeth Leefolt

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  Allison Janney
  Charlotte Phelan

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  Anna Camp
  Jolene French

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  Eleanor Henry
  Mae Mobley

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  Emma Henry
  Mae Mobley

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  Chris Lowell
  Stuart Whitworth

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  Cicely Tyson
  Constantine Jefferson

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  Mike Vogel
  Johnny Foote

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  Sissy Spacek
  Missus Walters

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  Brian Kerwin
  Robert Phelan

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  Wes Chatham
  Carlton Phelan

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  Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
  Yule Mae Davis

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  Ted Welch
  William Holbrook