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The Help

The Help

76%

PG-13, 2 hr. 17 min.
Drama
Directed By:
Tate Taylor

In Theaters:
Aug 10, 2011 Wide

On DVD:
Dec 6, 2011
DreamWorks Studios

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The Help
2 minutes 30 seconds

Added: Apr 20, 2011
The Help: Featurette
2 minutes 26 seconds

Added: Jun 7, 2011
The Help (Uk)
2 minutes 3 seconds

Added: Jul 27, 2011

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Critic Review - New Yorker

[The Help] is, in some ways, crude and obvious, but it opens up a broad new swath of experience on the screen, and parts of it are so moving and well acted that any objections to what's second-rate seem to matter less as the movie goes on.

August 10, 2011 Full Review Source: New Yorker

Source: New Yorker

| Comments (5)

David Denby

New Yorker

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The excerpt of this review sums up my exact opinion on the whole thing.

Sep 3 - 09:24 PM

I concur.

Oct 10 - 02:42 PM

Rameshwar No Last Name

Me too.

Dec 31 - 05:57 AM

agreed!!

May 21 - 11:40 AM

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