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The help

DVD

2011

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 for the screen and directed by Tate Taylor.
Published:	[United States] : 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. Jackson (Miss.) -- Drama.
Other Author:	Stockett, Kathryn. Help. Taylor, Tate. Stockett, Kathryn. Howard, Bryce Dallas, 1981- Tyson, Cicely. Stone, Emma, 1988- Newman, Thomas, 1955- Winborne, Hughes. Goldblatt, Stephen, 1945- Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm)
Other Title:	Help (Motion picture : 2011)
Genre:	Social problem films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired Video recordings for people with visual disabilities. Feature films. Fiction films.
Notes:	Based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett. Music, Thomas Newman ; editor, Hughes Winborne ; director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt. Bryce Dallas Howard, Cicely Tyson, Emma Stone, Jessica Chastain, Mike Vogel, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, Sissy Spacek. DVD ; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround (English, French and Spanish) and DVS 2.0 stereo. surround (English). In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish, with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish. Closed-captioned. Descriptive audio in English for the visually impaired.
Available Copies:	3 (of 5)
No. of Requests:	0
Call number:	DVD FICTION

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