"The Help" has been trending on Netflix amid anti-racism protests following George Floyd's death, but that's not necessarily a good thing. Here's why.

When I first read The Help, it was a hefty, six-pound manuscript. It was beyond massive. I was on a red-eye and stayed up the entire flight because I just couldn’t stop turning the pages. By the ...

‘The Help’ has universal themes instead of a script that targets one demographic. Like other great films, like ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ classic stories work on so many fundamental levels.

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The Help certainly includes swelling strings on the soundtrack, what Nelson George terms its “candy-coated cinematography,” and neatly intertwining stories with beginnings, middles, and ends.

“The Help,” this week’s non-action movie release, tells the story of black household workers in the South in the early 1960s—domestic helpers who take great risks by sharing stories about ...

No, it wasn’t real, but that didn’t make it any less disturbing for some of the actors. Here’s what was really in the pie in The Help and how one actor felt about that infamous scene. Bryce ...

Jessica Chastain earned her first Oscar nomination over a decade ago for her supporting role in the 2011 film The Help, and she’s now ready to return to the character that made her a household name.

The Help tries to understand all of them. It’s an intimate epic, not a historical one. And the tale written on the eloquent faces of Davis and Spencer speaks to the heart. • • ...

The film adaptation of the novel The Help has been critiqued for what some say is an inaccurate depiction of the life of black domestic servants in the civil rights era. Ida E. Jones of the ...

In “The Help’s” homespun story of racism in ‘60s-era Mississippi, some saw stereotypes. I saw pieces of my childhood — for better or worse. That’s the inherent difficulty of deciding ...