DreamWorks Pictures has provided a look behind-the-scenes with this featurette from the dramatic film The Help. Based on the bestselling novel by Kathryn Stockett, The Help stars Emma Stone as a college graduate who wants to be a writer. Her close-minded Southern friends don’t believe that’s the right goal for a woman in the 1960s.
The much-anticipated film also features Viola Davis (‘Aibileen’), Octavia Spencer (‘Minny’), Bryce Dallas Howard (‘Hilly Holbrook’), Jessica Chastain (‘Celia Foote’), Ahna O’Reilly (‘Elizabeth’), and Sissy Spacek (‘Mrs Walters’).
The Plot: Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, The Help stars Emma Stone as 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.
Viola Davis stars as Aibileen, Skeeter’s best friend’s housekeeper, who 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.
