Movie #495 "Help" might be the best movie I see this year ---- it's that good! In fact, I plan to bring the whole family to it some time this week because I saw it with my movie club, so Dave missed it and I don't want him to miss such a wonderful film. I read the book, and it was a grand reading (most of our book club liked and enjoyed it), so I went to the movie with trepidation. I know just how many books have been ruined on film, but this is one big fat exception. In fact, it might even be a bit better ---- there wasn't really a lot I didn't like about the book, but this is more compact, funnier, and more moving in places due to the acting and editing. However, I am glad I read the book so that I knew more of the backstories of all of these wondrous secondary characters. To be sure, there will be some nominations for AAs from this ensemblage. My guess is Viola Davis, and maybe Sissy Spacek (for supporting actress) or Cicely Tyson or even Allison Janney. Emma Stone has never been better, but afraid she will be overshadowed by Viola Davis' performance --------- but that's a good thing that there are all such great performances in such a great movie about an equally great book. Go see it! One of the best this year!
Rate 5 stars out of 5
The Help
(2011) PG-13
In 1960s Jackson, Miss., aspiring writer Eugenia Phelan crosses taboo racial lines by conversing with Aibileen Clark about her life as a housekeeper, and their ensuing friendship upsets the fragile dynamic between the haves and the have-nots. When other long-silent black servants begin opening up to Eugenia, the disapproving conservative Southern town soon gets swept up in the turbulence of changing times.
Genre: Dramas, Dramas based on a book, Social Issue Dramas, Dramas based on contemporary literature, 20th Century Period Pieces
This movie is: Emotional
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