Movies Like The Help: Genre and Cast Guide

The Help (2011) — an evergreen reference for this movie: the essentials, the cast, where to watch and what to watch next. Change begins with a whisper.

Where to watch

TMDB's U.S. watch-provider data lists YouTube TV. Availability changes by country and date, so check your streaming app before watching.

Cast

Emma Stone as Skeeter Phelan; Viola Davis as Aibileen Clark; Bryce Dallas Howard as Hilly Holbrook; Octavia Spencer as Minny Jackson; Jessica Chastain as Celia Foote; Ahna O'Reilly as Elizabeth Leefolt; Allison Janney as Charlotte Phelan; Anna Camp as Jolene French

About The Help

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

More like The Help

• The Color Purple
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Great Debaters
• The Best of Enemies
• Mud
• Passing
• The Six Triple Eight
• Richard Jewell

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