The help
Touchstone Pictures; 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
- Resource Type:
- DVD Video
- Publication:
- Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Entertainment, 2011
- Distribution:
- Burbank, CA : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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- Summary:
- In 1960s Mississippi, 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.
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- Language Notes:
- In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish, with optional subtitles in English for the hearing impaired, French or Spanish.
Closed-captioned.
Descriptive audio in English for the visually impaired. - Related Works:
- Motion picture adaptation of: Help [by Stockett, K.]
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- System Details:
- DVD ; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround (English, French and Spanish) and DVS 2.0 stereo. (English).
- Performers:
- Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek, Allison Janney, Chris Lowell, Ahna O'Reilly, Mary Steenburgen.
- Production Credits:
- Music, Thomas Newman ; editor, Hughes Winborne ; director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt.
- General Notes:
- Based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett.
DVD release of the 2011 motion picture.
Bonus features: deleted scenes with introductions by director Tate Taylor; Mary J. Blige's "The living proof" music video.
Golden Globes, 2012: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Octavia Spencer).
Academy Awards, 2012: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Octavia Spencer). - Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- Physical Characteristics:
- plastic; metal; polychrome
- Audio Characteristics:
- digital; optical
- Digital Characteristics:
- video file; DVD video; region 1
- Call Numbers:
- HEL 2011 DVD
- Other Standard Numbers:
- Universal Product Code: 786936814309
Publisher Number, Touchstone Home Entertainment: 106897 - OCLC Numbers:
- 748435864
