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What if simply telling the truth could get you fired, hurt or even killed? What if you went to work and your employer made you go out in a tornado just to use the alternative bathroom? What if you had to raise other people’s children while someone else was raising yours? When would you ever feel free?

Aibileen Clark (Viola Davis, DOUBT) lives under these conditions in the early ’60s in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the maid of Elizabeth Leefolt (Ahna O’Reilly, NANCY DREW), a housewife who does no house work. Like so many in her circle, she is more interested in impressing Mrs. Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard, SPIDER-MAN 3), a cruel bully who is pushing for an initiative to require homes with black help to have a separate bathroom for them. “Skeeter” Phelan (Emma Stone, CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE.) has been friends with these women since grade school, but instead of leaving high school and getting married like so many of them, she went to college to study journalism. Now she wants to write something important.

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