The Help (2011) Parents Guide & Movie Info
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The Help - Family Review

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.

2011 | 146 Minutes

Rated PG-13 for thematic material
IMDB: 8.1 ⭐️ Votes: 461,783

Content Warnings

  • Sexual Content
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    We see a couple dancing and the man's arms are around the woman's chest and he kisses her neck. A young man and a young woman kiss. A young man kisses a young woman. A man kisses a woman on the cheek. A young man places his hand on top of a young woman's hand.

    At a function, they zoom in on the woman in the pink dress. It's zoomed on her cleavage, she's very endowed and they bounce as she walks, causing most men to stare. It's hyper focused on them for several seconds. A scene later shows the same women, currently drunk, she then sneaks up to another woman at a table and surprise hugs her from behind while her cleavage squishes the back of her neck, a lady on the next seat gives them an odd look.

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    A woman is seen with a bruise in a scene. It is revealed she has been hit by her husband.

  • Profanity
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    Scatological terms, 2 anatomical terms, 2 sexual terms, 17 mild obscenities, 9 derogatory racial terms, name-calling (crazy, tacky, fools, lazy thing, greasy stinky men, stupid, disgusting, rude, jerk, drunken, thief, sweaty mess, mean old woman, white trash, selfish, sass mouth, raggedy, thievin', godless woman), exclamations (shoot, for crying out loud, oh gosh, shut up, dog gone it), 4 religious profanities, 13 religious exclamations.

    Seven uses of "shit", 2 uses of "goddamn", 1 use of "asshole" , and over 12 uses of "nigger".

  • Intense Scenes
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    Very dramatic movie, many heavy scenes

    A maid is about to get beaten by her husband when being on the phone with another maid.

    The aforementioned pie scene may make some viewers squeamish.

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