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Author:

Help (Motion picture : 2011).

Title:

The help [DVD].

Format:

[DVD].

Publisher:

Touchstone Home Entertainment

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Stockett, Kathryn--Film adaptations.
Historical films.
Nineteen sixties--Drama.
Civil rights movements--Drama.
Videorecordings for the hearing impaired.
African American women--Drama.
African American women household employees--Drama.
Housekeepers--Mississippi--Drama.
Jackson (Miss)--Drama.
Social problem films.

Other Authors:

Green, Brunson.
Columbus, Chris.
Barnathan, Michael.
Taylor, Tate.
Howard, Bryce Dallas, 1981-
Tyson, Cicely.
Stone, Emma, 1988-
Chastain, Jessica.
Vogel, Mike.
Spencer, Octavia.
Davis, Viola.
Spacek, Sissy.
Janney, Allison.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 2011. Based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett. Special features: Deleted scenes ; music video by Mary J. Blige.

Summary:

Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, 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. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.

LCCN:

be2011029876

Locations:

VIPA334 -- Arlington Public Library (Arlington)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

WKPE185 -- Cherokee Public Library (Cherokee)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

HNPC845 -- Hawarden Public Library (Hawarden)

BJPD251 -- Waukee Public Library (Waukee)