Movie Review: The Help

Drama, 146 Minutes, 2011: The Help on IMDB

Before getting into the movie let me say: I had no idea what this was.  My wife had read the book and demanded that we see it so… we did.  But I asked her, “what’s this about?”  She got a gleam in her eye and started, “Well, there’s this white woman that -” and I stopped her.  Basically there’s only a few kind of movies that can be described with that phrase (and my wife isn’t even remotely interested in several of them).  It’s like “This guy finds out he has a kid…” or “These kids find a map…”  Even if you can’t say exactly what’s going to happen you know basically what’s going to happen.

In any case – good movie!  You see this white woman (see what I did there?) in the 1960′s South decides to collect stories from the black maids that run the white households, raise the white children, cook the white meals and generally do anything productive or useful.  Of course truth about racial inequality isn’t exactly in high demand in 1960′s Jackson, Mississippi so drama ensues.

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