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Set in the 1960s in Jackson, Mississippi, The Help follows young college graduate Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, who has just returned home with a degree from Ole Miss. Skeeter dreams of being a writer, and while she immediately lands a job writing a cleaning column, she soon after decides to secretly pen a book exposing what life is like from the point of view of the help, the African American women who cook, clean and raise white children, only to have those children grow up and become their bosses.
Aibileen is the maid for Skeeter's best friend Elizabeth. She does all the cooking, she cleans, she goes to the grocery story, and most important, she takes care of Elizabeth's daughter Mae Mobley. Although reluctant at first, Aibileen is the first maid to agree to talk with Skeeter.
The next maid to agree to tell her story is Minny. Working for Miss Hilly Holbrook, the town's queen bee, Minny is the best cook in the county. Miss Hilly's manipulative ways finally become too much for Minny, though, and Minny does a "terrible, awful" to get back at her. After that, Minny goes to work for Celia Foote, a nice young lady who is considered white trash by Hilly and her friends.
As racial tensions rise and tragedy strikes in the town, more maids find the courage to come forward anonymously. Despite the possibility of a terrible backlash, the women tell all for a book that has the potential to turn their Mississippi town completely upside down.
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Doors Open: 7.30 p.m Film starts 8.00 p.m. TICKETS: £5.00 (to include a glass of wine) U18 £3.00
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