The Help (2011)

08/10/2011 2h 26m

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Overview

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 Ages at Release

Emma Stone

as Skeeter Phelan

Born 11/06/1988, age

Viola Davis

as Aibileen Clark

Born 08/11/1965, age

Bryce Dallas Howard

as Hilly Holbrook

Born 03/02/1981, age

Octavia Spencer

as Minny Jackson

Born 05/25/1970, age

Jessica Chastain

as Celia Foote

Born 03/24/1977, age

Allison Janney

as Charlotte Phelan

Born 11/19/1959, age

Anna Camp

as Jolene French

Born 09/27/1982, age

​Christopher Lowell

as Stuart Whitworth

Born 10/17/1984, age

Cicely Tyson

as Constantine Jefferson

Born 12/19/1924

Died 01/28/2021, age

Mike Vogel

as Johnny Foote

Born 07/17/1979, age

Sissy Spacek

as Missus Walters

Born 12/25/1949, age

Brian Kerwin

as Robert Phelan

Born 10/25/1949, age

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

as Yule Mae Davis

Born 02/21/1969, age

Shane McRae

as Raleigh Leefolt

Born 07/23/1977, age

Leslie Jordan

as Mr. Blackly

Born 04/29/1955

Died 10/24/2022, age

Mary Steenburgen

as Elaine Stein

Born 02/08/1953, age

Ashley Johnson

as Mary Beth Caldwell

Born 08/09/1983, age

Nelsan Ellis

as Henry The Waiter

Born 11/30/1977

Died 07/08/2017, age

David Oyelowo

as Preacher Green

Born 04/01/1976, age

Dana Ivey

as Gracie Higginbotham

Born 08/12/1941, age