'The Help' Cast Dishes on Oscar Buzz and Wearing Three Pairs of Spanx

I hated that movie so stupid and nasty. Ugh! Black peopel just love being an #$%$ for other races, but hate their own. Sick Minds

Reginald, your poor miserable soul...

I was just amazed! My roommate and I sat watching this in tears of... anger! I myself (white) have had a housekeeping business for years. During which time I have been told that I could not use there restroom, or drink from there glasses. From most of my employers I never received a raise or a Christmas bonus. One year a client gave me a Christmas ornament that was a little vacuum. "how sweet" Back to the story: They were safe enough to love, care for and nuture your children. Clean your house, prepare your meals, BUT they couldn't use your toliet? HELLO! they clean it. They can use IT.
We are all Gods Children. He created each and everyone of us. I'm just saying.

hope she is careful with the spanx. cutting off the circulation like that is dangerous. i wore 2 pair at once and had a seizure at the event i was attending. doctors could never figure out why it happened and attributed it to that!! don't laugh! (okay so i laugh when i think about it)

Greg....your kidding right?! You think because something was made into law on Monday, it erased and eradicated hate and seperation on Tuesday.... You're sadly mistaken. My aunt and uncle used to tell us about the nanny they had that took care of them in the 60's and to hear some of my relatives talk.....A LOT has changed, but A LOT has not!

I was raised in Los Angeles, CA. I had a great Aunt who worked in Hollywood. 1964, I spent a summer with her and had to go to her employers house everyday during that time. She walked on eggs the whole day. This movie brought forth tears of sadness, because I finally understood why my great Aunt was so sad. She never spoke about her job. I stayed in the kitchen reading or peeling potatoes or doing some chore. I only got to see that one room of the house.

Simply a phenomenally heart wrenching tale. I would advise anyone with dry eyes who after having watched this masterpiece feeling no stronger emotion than relief it was over to indeed check your pulse. Or the lack therof.
Kudos to each and every person involved in the writing, making and distribution of "The Help".
Not just in film but the book by Kathryn Stockett as well. A truly memorable and haunting story experience that will for me, endure as one movie whose story has been too long in the making, certainly deserving in all of it's accolades.
But let's for a moment forget the SAG's, the Oscars and all of the hype. Just watch this brilliant movie and imagine yourself a part of something richly evocative of who we may yet be as a people. A society proved greater by the sum of it's parts, each of us included in the whole of greatness, shared together. Each and every one.
Our pasts don't have to remain something to be ashamed of once we openly and honestly face them and embrace change for the better. "Race cards" and "blame games" do not a better world make, for anyone. And I know these are the tactics of candidates and professional politicians and even some "religious" leaders alike, but whose purpose do these wastes of time and money serve in the long run? Only their own and I assure you, they do not nor have ever had your best interests at heart. Never. And in a similar vein, if The Association of Black Women Historians feels any aside or insult whatsoever from the novel this film is based, perhaps they collectiviely or individually should take it upon themselves to pen their own heartbreaking story focusing on the other injustices they feel were left out in this particular tale instead of villifying anothers work. Again, study an agency or any individuals agenda of negativity and you will reveal a whole truth and not just a select part set aside to beget the accomplishment of one's own purpose.
A much wiser man than myself once said: "as long as even one is chained, none of us are free". Think about where we've come from and where we are going. Are we better today as a people, as a nation, than 1962? 1972? 1982? 1992? 2002? 2012? Really better? If not, then who to blame but ourselves? Yet pointing fingers is not the solution.
We must ask ourselves are the blinders and chains still on? Each forged just a little differently than preceding years would show so as to perhaps not readily be noticed. Some by chance, many by choice.
All we have to do to make things better is imagine greater than ever before, and then follow through as never before. And yes, that means each and every one of us must do our part. No one gets left behind. Not by chance, and certainly none by choice.

The movie is, in many ways, an inaccurate portrayal of the time. Although made with the best of intentions, its major flaw is that it proposes to place a 21st century mindset into characters living firmly in the early 1960's with all of its significant historical truths. The success of the civil rights movement changed the thinking and the actions of those who actually lived through the time leading to the ability to even comprehend a movie such as The Help.

Right though. I thought this was an amazing movie. Made me cry but it was amazing

This is a book btw...you all do realize that....just sayin

Why is it we have to endure these fat black actresses, and then they are handed awards. All they do is play themselves - poor, fat, and black - and Hollywood has to make them into the next fat Oprah!