Film · Touchstone Pictures (DreamWorks)
The Help: where to start reading
Adapts The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
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1 book
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After Film (2011), in the books you are
at The Help.
through the end of the novel.
The film covers the whole novel's story. It reworks some point-of-view choices from the book (for example, framing a key scene around Skeeter rather than a maid), but the overall arc tracks the source. A self-contained standalone.
Start reading at The Help (the novel)
Spoiler-safe, only what the movies already showed you.
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Kathryn Stockett
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What the movies changed here
- ChangedThe novel splits its narration between Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny; the film centres Skeeter and thins the two maids' viewpoints.
- CutCelia Foote's miscarriage storyline, which deepens her bond with Minny in the book, is omitted from the film.
- CutThe book scene where an intruder breaks into Celia's home and she and Minny fight him off is dropped from the movie.
- ChangedHilly is written as more openly aggressive and villainous on screen than the more ignorant, old-fashioned figure of the novel.
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The 2011 film adapts Kathryn Stockett's single 2009 novel but shifts some of the book's narrative focus, foregrounding Skeeter over the maids' perspective in places.
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