Dena and I saw "The Help" at the theater while out in Nashville.
It's the story of the heart of the 1960's civil rights movement, when African-American women were employed for pocket change as maids in wealthy Jackson, Mississippi homes. As their bigoted employers debated whether to build separate outhouses to keep their maids' "diseases" at bay and took various other steps to demote them to second class status - or worse, they pull together to assist a young, lonely daughter of privilege to write an expose' of the Jim Crow South.
Plenty of triumphant courage themes running through this one. In the end, the bad guys (more like bad gals) get their comeuppance.
If it's too late to see in the theaters, it'd be a good date night rental on a slow Saturday night.
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