The Help

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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  Emma Stone

  Skeeter Phelan
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  Viola Davis

  Aibileen Clark
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  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Hilly Holbrook
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  Octavia Spencer

  Minny Jackson
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  Jessica Chastain

  Celia Foote
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  Ahna O'Reilly

  Elizabeth Leefolt
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  Allison Janney

  Charlotte Phelan
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  Anna Camp

  Jolene French
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  Chris Lowell

  Stuart Whitworth
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  Cicely Tyson

  Constantine Jefferson