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Product Description An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.Bonus: Movie Showcase - Blood on the land: Forging King Arthur, King Arthur - A Roundtable Discussion, Atlernate Ending, Producer's Photo GalleryEXTRASThe Making of The Help: From Friendship to Film, In their Own Words: A Tribute to the Maids of Mississippi, Deleted scenes with intro by Director Tate Taylor desertcart.co.uk Review 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. Fennessy Review: Fantastic film - Brilliance, fantastic film. Don't miss out on this little gem. Great afrocaribian cast, hard gitting themes and characters you hate. I really enjoyed this wonderful film set in a very old town, in a racist trajectory. Some really hard bits to watch, but it us comical also at times. A must see film. Review: Pie - I just got so angry for the 'help' in this film. A real expose of the Deep South and America's shameful treatment even into what we would consider an enlightened era the 60's. Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis are truly the reason this film is so successful as they hold up a mirror to a disgraceful history with passion, humour and empathy. Great story of resilience and courage and certainly made me think. One word 'Pie'...keep that word in your mind when you watch this fabulous film.













































| ASIN | B006FVIBCW |
| Actors | Bryce Dallas Howard, Emma Stone, Jessica Chastain, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis |
| Aspect Ratio | 16:9 - 1.85:1 |
| Audio Description: | English |
| Best Sellers Rank | 7,637 in DVD & Blu-ray ( See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray ) 2,698 in Drama (DVD & Blu-ray) 3,123 in Blu-ray |
| Customer reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (13,242) |
| Director | Tate Taylor |
| Dubbed: | Italian, Spanish |
| Is discontinued by manufacturer | No |
| Item model number | BUY0175201 |
| Language | English (DTS 5.1), Italian (DTS 5.1) |
| Media Format | Blu-ray |
| Number of discs | 1 |
| Product Dimensions | 13.5 x 1.5 x 17.2 cm; 40 g |
| Release date | 13 Oct. 2025 |
| Run time | 2 hours and 26 minutes |
| Studio | Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment |
| Subtitles: | Danish, English, Finnish, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish |
J**E
Fantastic film
Brilliance, fantastic film. Don't miss out on this little gem. Great afrocaribian cast, hard gitting themes and characters you hate. I really enjoyed this wonderful film set in a very old town, in a racist trajectory. Some really hard bits to watch, but it us comical also at times. A must see film.
J**O
Pie
I just got so angry for the 'help' in this film. A real expose of the Deep South and America's shameful treatment even into what we would consider an enlightened era the 60's. Octavia Spencer and Viola Davis are truly the reason this film is so successful as they hold up a mirror to a disgraceful history with passion, humour and empathy. Great story of resilience and courage and certainly made me think. One word 'Pie'...keep that word in your mind when you watch this fabulous film.
M**S
Great movie
Excellent movie
T**C
A Thoroughly Entertaining Film
As there are 700 reviews on here already I don’t intend to over-elaborate about the plot. I saw the film when it came out in 2011 and I was sufficiently impressed to want to view it again on DVD. I always enjoy films about the ‘Deep South’ as I love its countryside, antebellum architecture and the whole history of that period - even if some of it is very distasteful, but then, so are large parts of our ‘ British Empire,’ but it is history nonetheless. The filming around Mississippi is just lovely, aided of course by the fact that the director, Tate Taylor, (also Get on Up / James Brown fame) comes from that particular state. All the filming was done there, at Jackson, Clarksdale & Greenwood. You can’t get more authentic than that! I really enjoyed this film, though on the second viewing, I did find it a little overly sentimental, which didn’t hit me the first time around – can’t really explain that one! The film is not trying to be another ‘12 Years a Slave’ or ‘Django,’ or even a ‘Roots and so shouldn’t be judged as such.’ I found the all-round acting first class, though quite how Brice Dallas Howard - the despicable Hilly Holbrook, didn’t get an AA nom’ for ‘best supporting actress’ as well, is quite beyond me. The ‘cast’ did win ‘Best Ensemble’ from several award groups which does make me feel somewhat better. This is an excellent watch IMHO - the critics and public thought so too. It turned in a profit of nearly 200 million $ and was nominated for over 100 awards, winning 40.
M**A
Two Slice Hilly
The story of "The Help" might not be the most harrowing, most awful, most difficult story of racial prejudice in the US but is a story from a domestic setting, a story of women. So few stories of women are told. I loved the book, I loved the film but didn't like the changes. Not fine art but a story and an interesting story. A good film. Sometimes moving the focus of an important time in history like the civil rights movement to something more domestic and mundane makes it more real. The big moments take time to filter to real people. There are some fine and real performances in this from Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Emma Stone. I find it perplexing that Amazon chooses to list this as "The Help" Emma Stone (Actor, Primary Contributor), Bryce Dallas Howard (Actor, Primary Contributor), Tate Taylor (Director). What happened to the black actresses? The thing I found sad about the adaptation is Constantine's story was rushed. Her daughter was very different in the book and had more of a significant part in humiliating Skeeter's mother which although was worse than portrayed (for the time) made Skeeter's mother much less sympathetic as a character. The other sad thing is that I'm really not sure how I feel about the story. I don't know how I feel about the author and her inspiration. Bad things have been claimed which you hope not to be true because you want the story to be pure and full of hope but nothing in reality is like that. A good film. A film with a message and perhaps it is the latter which makes it difficult but a good film nonetheless.
B**R
人権問題を扱ったヒューマンドラマですが悲壮感や説教臭さがないのに心に響きます。 個人的にはカラーパープルに並ぶ傑作だと思います。 作品の構成や見せ方がよく練られており非の打ちどころがないので約140分飽きずに見れました。 この1本のおかげでいい正月休みになりました。
L**O
Es una historia increíble que todos deben conocer ,pues nos muestra una historia de al vida que muchos ni conociamos
N**A
Um filme excelente. Muito tocante. Informativo tb, pois eu não sabia a condição de racismo nos EUA, mesmo já nos anos 1960s. Impressionante.
A**I
Mon amie a fait un essai, se méfiant de la qualité des productions de ces dernières années : elle a acheté la version DVD de ce film. De mon côté, j'en connaissais la jaquette car j'avais acheté sur Amazon le film "Les Couleurs du Destin" (avec un titre original bien plus intéressant et bien plus parlant que ce titre complètement niais français. Le titre original était "For Colored Girls"). Amazon m'avait suggéré "La Couleur des Sentiments" (encore un titre français minable quand le titre original est "The Help"). Mon amie a donc commandé le DVD. Nous n'avions pas parlé de ce film, nous l'avons donc directement vu. Houuu, que j'ai ri, et que j'ai pleuré ! Le film traite du racisme, mais sous un angle différent de tout ce qu'il s'est fait jusqu'à maintenant. Nous savions tous que le racisme existait aux États-Unis dans les années 60 et jusque tardivement encore, certains restaurants avaient sur leur porte un écriteau "No Blacks, no Jews, No dogs"... Nous savions tous que dans les années 60 (et même aujourd'hui dans certaines familles -même si heureusement, elles sont de plus en plus rares !), des Blancs avaient des domestiques noirs. Nous trouvons tous cela choquant en soi et révoltant... Encore heureux ! Mais les films sur le racisme que subissaient (et subissent) les Noirs au Etats-Unis n'allaient en général pas plus loin que la dénonciation de ce type de ségrégation héritée du sinistre temps de l'esclavage... Ce dont parle ce film, et ce que nous ignorions, c'est ce que vivaient ces domestiques. C'est précisément ce que développe le film "La Couleur des Sentiments" ("The Help"). Le film est à la fois un rire et un cri. Il mêle habilement la dimension comique lié au ridicule des familles blanches racistes et la souffrance, la tristesse et la solitude de ces femmes noires dont personne ne parle. Le moins que l'on puisse dire est que ce film m'a profondément ému. Il a même fait bien plus que cela : il m'a bouleversé. Je n'ai jamais autant ri et pleuré en regardant un film, et même après l'avoir vu, j'en pleurais encore ! Immédiatement après le visionnage de ce film, je me suis rué vers Amazon pour l'acheter en DVD et en Blu-ray et j'ai remercié de tout mon coeur mon amie pour me l'avoir fait découvrir ! Ce film est exceptionnel ! Les perles sont rares de nos jours, c'en est une. La VF est aussi excellente que la VO. A voir absolument et sans modération ! Je profite de mon commentaire pour alerter sur le fait que le racisme aux Etats-Unis fait souvent l'objet de critiques dans les films états-uniens et que beaucoup de Français apprécient ces films dénonçant celui-ci, mais en France le racisme est encore très présent et parfaitement intégré à la culture générale ! J'habite un appartement sur rue, et à 4h du matin des ouvriers ont changé le sens des passages zébrés. Tous étaient Noirs. Vous ne verrez jamais un Blanc faire ce type de boulot aux heures indues en France ! Le présentateurs du JT en France en 2013 sont toujours Blancs, ou alors Arabes (Rashid Arab), mais jamais... Jamais jamais JAMAIS Noirs ! Idem pour les Présidents de la République, jamais de Noirs ! Les personnes de peau brune ou noire, on a beaucoup plus de chance de les trouver en cherchant du côté des personnels de ménage, des videurs des grands magasins, des éboueurs, etc. que dans des postes comme responsable/présentateur d'émission tv, Président de la République, Premier Ministre, présentateur du journal télévisé, patron de banques, etc... Alors si la critique du racisme états-unien est parfaitement justifié, cela ne doit pas nous empêcher d'observer et de critiquer celui qui est récurrent en France et contre lequel aucun film à ma connaissance n'est jamais sorti ! Ah, si quelques uns, mais ils sont extrêmement rares (tellement que l'on pourrait s'imaginer que la France est un pays qui n'est que peu concerné par le racisme) : Romuald et Julliette (sorti il y a 24 ans !) peut-être aussi Intouchables (2011), et, dans le registre comédie, Rabbi Jacob (il y a 40 ans !) mais à ma connaissance, le racisme n'est pas vraiment ni tellement dénoncé en France dans les films cinématographiques. Et ce simple fait est tout à fait scandaleux. Il révèle que le racisme est complètement intégré à la société française.
L**H
Knappe film, blij met mijn aankoop
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