Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The help [videorecording] / Dreamworks Pictures and Reliance Entertainment present in association with Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi a 1492 Pictures, Harbinger Pictures production ; produced by Brunson Green, Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan ; written and directed by Tate Taylor.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Home Entertainment, [2011]

Description:

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

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.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic material. CHV rating: PG; for mature theme, language may offend.

Subjects:

Civil rights movements -- Drama.

African American women -- Drama.

Housekeepers -- Mississippi -- Drama.

African American women household employees -- Drama.

Social problem films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.

Feature films.

Jackson (Miss.) -- Drama.

Other Author:

Stone, Emma, 1988-

Howard, Bryce Dallas, 1981-

Tyson, Cicely.

Stone, Emma, 1988-

Chastain, Jessica, 1981-

Vogel, Mike.

Spencer, Octavia.

Davis, Viola, 1965-

Spacek, Sissy.

Green, Brunson.

Columbus, Chris.

Barnathan, Michael.

Taylor, Tate.

Stockett, Kathryn. Help.

Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm)

Dreamworks Pictures.

Reliance Entertainment.

Participant Media.

Imagenation Abu Dhabi (Firm)

1492 Pictures.

Harbinger Pictures (Firm)

Notes:

Based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett.

Bryce Dallas Howard, Cicely Tyson, Emma Stone, Jessica Chastain, Mike Vogel, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, Sissy Spacek.

DVD ; widescreen (1.85:1), Dolby digital 5.1.

English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish dialogue; French or Spanish subtitles. English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH); video descriptions for people with visual disabilities.

ISBN:

9786314502669

Publisher Number:

106897

Other Number:

763464554

System Availability:

5

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

5

Control Number:

310289

# Local items in:

4

# System items in:

4

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Help

Medium:

[videorecording]