Hollywood Stars: "The Help" movies win Box Office

The Help is a 2011 comedy-drama film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel of the same name about a young white woman, Skeeter Phelan, and her relationship with two black maids during Civil Rights era America in early 1960s.the film a release date of August 12, 2011.On its opening day, The Help grossed $5.5 million and also achieved the highest gross of the day.

It then went on to make an additional $4.3 million on Thursday bringing its two day total to $9.8 million.For its opening weekend, The Help grossed $26.0 million and came in second place to Rise of the Planet of the Apes.During its second weekend, The Help reached the number one spot at the box office and came in with $20.0 million.As of August 21, 2011 The Help has grossed $71,340,829.

Plot:

Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Emma Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends’ lives — and a small Mississippi town — upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen (Viola Davis), Skeeter’s best friend’s housekeeper, is the first to open up — to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter’s life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories — and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly — and unwillingly — caught up in the changing times.