'The Help' on Blu-ray and DVD

Written by Bob Suggs Wednesday, 30 November 2011 11:57

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The Help on Blu-ray/DVDThe #1 New York Times best seller by Kathryn Stockett comes to vivid life through the powerful performances of a phenomenal ensemble cast. Led by Emma Stone, Academy Award(R)-nominated Viola Davis (Best Supporting Actress, Doubt, 2008), Octavia Spencer and Bryce Dallas Howard, The Help is an inspirational, courageous and empowering story about very different, extraordinary women in the 1960s South who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project -- one that breaks society's rules and puts them all at risk. Filled with poignancy, humor and hope -- and complete with compelling never-before-seen bonus features -- The Help is a timeless, universal and triumphant story about the ability to create change.

There are male viewers who will enjoy The Help, but Mississippi native Tate Taylor aims his adaptation squarely at the female readers who made Kathryn Stockett's novel a bestseller. If the multi-character narrative revolves around race relations in the Kennedy-era South, the perspective belongs to the women. Veteran maid Aibileen (Doubt's Viola Davis in an Oscar-worthy performance) provides the heartfelt narration that brackets the story. A widow devastated by the death of her son, she takes pride in the 17 children she has helped to raise, but she's hardly fulfilled. That changes when Skeeter (Easy A's Emma Stone) returns home after college. Unlike her peers, Skeeter wants to work, so she gets a job as a newspaper columnist. But she really longs to write about Jackson's domestics, so she meets with Aibileen in secret--after much cajoling and the promise of anonymity. When Aibileen's smart-mouthed friend Minny (breakout star Octavia Spencer) breaches her uptight employer's protocol, Hilly (Bryce Dallas Howard) gives her the boot, and she ends up in the employ of local outcast Celia (Jessica Chastain, hilarious and heartbreaking), who can't catch a break due to her dirt-poor origins. After the murder of Medgar Evers, even more maids, Minny among them, bring their stories to Skeeter, leading to a book that scandalizes the town--in a good way. Not since Steel Magnolias has Hollywood produced a Southern woman's picture more likely to produce buckets of tears (and almost as many laughs).

Actors: Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard
Directors: Tate Taylor
Format: Color, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Region: Region A/1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 3
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Studios
DVD Release Date: December 6, 2011
Run Time: 137 minutes

The Help (Three-Disc Combo: Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy)

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Actor: Emma Stone Actor: Octavia Spencer Actor: Jessica Chastain Actor: Viola Davis Actor: Bryce Dallas Howard AspectRatio: 1.85:1 AudienceRating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: Blu-ray Color: color Director: Tate Taylor EAN: 0786936817140 EANList: Format: Color Format: NTSC Format: Subtitled Format: Widescreen IsEligibleForTradeIn: 1 ItemDimensions: Label: Walt Disney Studios Languages: ListPrice: Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios MPN: DISBR107873 NumberOfDiscs: 3 NumberOfItems: 5 PackageDimensions: PackageQuantity: 1 PartNumber: DISBR107873 ProductGroup: DVD ProductTypeName: ABIS_DVD Publisher: Walt Disney Studios RegionCode: 1 ReleaseDate: 2011-12-06 RunningTime: 146 SKU: B11663 Studio: Walt Disney Studios Title: The Help (Three-Disc Combo: Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy) TradeInValue: UPC: 786936817140 UPCList:

Product Description The #1 New York Times bestseller by Kathryn Stockett comes to vivid life through the powerful performances of a phenomenal ensemble cast. Led by Emma Stone, Academy Award-nominated Viola Davis (best supporting actress, Doubt, 2008), Octavia Spencer, and Bryce Dallas Howard, The Help is an inspirational, courageous, and empowering story about very different, extraordinary women in the 1960s South who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project - one that breaks society's rules and puts them all at risk. Filled with poignancy, humor, and hope - and complete with compelling, never-before-seen bonus features - The Help is a timeless, universal, and triumphant story about the ability to create change. Amazon.com There are male viewers who will enjoy The Help, but Mississippi native Tate Taylor aims his adaptation squarely at the female readers who made Kathryn Stockett's novel a bestseller. If the multi-character narrative revolves around race relations in the Kennedy-era South, the perspective belongs to the women. Veteran maid Aibileen (Doubt's Viola Davis in an Oscar-worthy performance) provides the heartfelt narration that brackets the story. A widow devastated by the death of her son, she takes pride in the 17 children she has helped to raise, but she's hardly fulfilled. That changes when Skeeter (Easy A's Emma Stone) returns home after college. Unlike her peers, Skeeter wants to work, so she gets a job as a newspaper columnist. But she really longs to write about Jackson's domestics, so she meets with Aibileen in secret--after much cajoling and the promise of anonymity. When Aibileen's smart-mouthed friend Minny (breakout star Octavia Spencer) breaches her uptight employer's protocol, Hilly (Bryce Dallas Howard) gives her the boot, and she ends up in the employ of local outcast Celia (Jessica Chastain, hilarious and heartbreaking), who can't catch a break due to her dirt-poor origins. After the murder of Medgar Evers, even more maids, Minny among them, bring their stories to Skeeter, leading to a book that scandalizes the town--in a good way. Not since Steel Magnolias has Hollywood produced a Southern woman's picture more likely to produce buckets of tears (and almost as many laughs). --Kathleen C. FennessyRelated Products The Book         The Music More From Kathryn Stockett  More From the Stars of The Help Emma Stone        Viola Davis Bryce Dallas Howard

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Author: Kathryn Stockett Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780399155345 EANList: Feature: Literature & Fiction Feature: Contemporary Women Feature: Women's Fiction Feature: The Help Feature: Books > Literature & Fiction > Literary ISBN: 0399155341 ItemDimensions: Label: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam Languages: ListPrice: Manufacturer: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam NumberOfItems: 1 NumberOfPages: 464 PackageDimensions: PackageQuantity: 1 ProductGroup: Book ProductTypeName: ABIS_BOOK PublicationDate: 2009-02-10 Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam ReleaseDate: 2009-02-10 SKU: 1200705480 Studio: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam Title: The Help

Product Description Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.

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