The Help (2011)

08/10/2011 2h 26m

Change begins with a whisper.

How old is the movie?

13 years 11 months 6 days

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 36

Viola Davis

as Aibileen Clark

Born 08/11/1965, age 59

Bryce Dallas Howard

as Hilly Holbrook

Born 03/02/1981, age 44

Octavia Spencer

as Minny Jackson

Born 05/25/1970, age 55

Jessica Chastain

as Celia Foote

Born 03/24/1977, age 48

Allison Janney

as Charlotte Phelan

Born 11/19/1959, age 65

Anna Camp

as Jolene French

Born 09/27/1982, age 42

​Christopher Lowell

as Stuart Whitworth

Born 10/17/1984, age 40

Cicely Tyson

as Constantine Jefferson

Born 12/19/1924

Died 01/28/2021, age 96

Mike Vogel

as Johnny Foote

Born 07/17/1979, age 45

Sissy Spacek

as Missus Walters

Born 12/25/1949, age 75

Brian Kerwin

as Robert Phelan

Born 10/25/1949, age 75

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

as Yule Mae Davis

Born 02/21/1969, age 56

Shane McRae

as Raleigh Leefolt

Born 07/23/1977, age 47

Leslie Jordan

as Mr. Blackly

Born 04/29/1955

Died 10/24/2022, age 67

Mary Steenburgen

as Elaine Stein

Born 02/08/1953, age 72

Ashley Johnson

as Mary Beth Caldwell

Born 08/09/1983, age 41

Nelsan Ellis

as Henry The Waiter

Born 11/30/1977

Died 07/08/2017, age 39

David Oyelowo

as Preacher Green

Born 04/01/1976, age 49

Dana Ivey

as Gracie Higginbotham

Born 08/12/1941, age 83