Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Entertainment distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, c2011.
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Notes:
- DVD Region 1 Dolby digital 5.1.
- In English. Dubbed in French or Spanish. Optional subtitles in French or Spanish. Subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH). Descriptive audio in English for the visually impaired.
- Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek, Allison Janney, Chris Lowell, Ahna O’Reilly, Mary Steenburgen.
- Music, Thomas Newman editor, Hughes Winborne director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt.
- Based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett.
- DVD release of the 2011 motion picture.
- Bonus features: deleted scenes with introductions by director Tate Taylor Mary J. Blige’s The living proof music video.
- MPAA rating: PG-13, for thematic material.
- In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, 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, Skeeter’s best friend’s housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
- Academy Awards, 2012: Best supporting actress (Spencer)
Subjects:
- Civil rights movements — Drama.
- African American women — Drama.
- African American women household employees — Drama.
- Housekeepers — Mississippi — Drama.
- Friendship — Drama.
- Jackson (Miss.) — Drama.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired. lcgft
- Films for the hearing impaired. lcgft
- Video recordings for people with visual disabilities. lcgft
- Films for people with visual disabilities. lcgft
- Feature films. lcgft
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