This is one of the few movies this year that I can feel comfortable recommending to people. It has gotten a lot of good press and the three female Oscar nominees (Viola Davis for Lead, Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain for Supporting) have been collecting statues all over the place lately at the Golden Globes and at the SAG Awards. I still think Meryl has the lock on Best Actress this year but Supporting Actress is up for grabs. It did not get nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, which I found surprising but I didn't read the book. Maybe they changed a lot of stuff. I don't know.Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone) is a fresh Ole Miss graduate looking to jump-start her writing career with some experience working for the Jackson newspaper. She is assigned the cleaning advice column and seeks out the professional tips she needs from the maid of one of her college friends. However, once she sees how Abilene (Viola Davis) is treated by the white well-bred society women, ruled with an iron fist by Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard), she decides to write an anonymous book telling the true perspective of the women relegated to the background. Hilly's own maid, Minnie (Octavia Spencer), finds herself fired and ostracized for simply using an indoor toilet. The only job she can find is working for the flibbertigibbet Celia Foote (Jessica Chastain), the white trash transplant who stole Hilly's boyfriend. As tensions mount over the growing Civil Rights movement, Skeeter, Minnie and Abilene must decide how much risk they are willing to take to see this project through.
It's not a movie I could watch over and over because there are just too many sad parts but I do think that everybody should watch this movie at least once.
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