Movie Details: When an aspiring author (Emma Stone) in 1960s Mississippi decides to write a book from the point of view of the African-American women who take care of white, prominent, southern families, she wakes up — and shakes up — the whole town. In the process, she loses a few friends, but gains some new ones in two of “the help” she interviews for the book — Aibileen (Viola Davis) and Minny (Octavia Spencer). Also stars Sissy Spacek and Cicely Tyson.