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Arts & Entertainment

Movie: The Help (2 Showings)

Shown at 1:30pm & 6:30pm in the Auditorium

PG-13, 146 minutes, With Emma Stone, Viola Davis & Octavia Spencer

A 1960s Mississippi town reels when a society girl returns from college determined to become a writer and decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives as maids for prominent white families.

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Based on the sensational best seller.

The #1 New York Times best seller by Kathryn Stockett comes to vivid life through the powerful performances of a phenomenal ensemble cast. Led by Emma Stone, Academy
Award(R)-nominated Viola Davis (Best Supporting Actress, Doubt, 2008), Octavia Spencer and Bryce Dallas Howard, The Help is an inspirational, courageous and empowering
 story about very different, extraordinary women in the 1960s South who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project -- one that breaks society's
rules and puts them all at risk. Filled with poignancy, humor and hope -- and complete with compelling never-before-seen bonus features -- The Help is a timeless, universal and triumphant story about the ability to create change.

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