It's the 1960's in Jacksonville Mississippi, everything in the town is divided between black and white. The black women are maids in the houses of the white women and it's been this way for a long time. There a published laws regarding the interaction and separation of the two races. Eugenia is a part of this white society but she sees things differently and she wants to be a writer. She starts talking to Albileen about what it is really like to be a maid and they encourage the other maids to begin to tell their stories.
This is very good, it's a story that most of us don't know anything about. Raising white children but not raising their own children, not being able to use the same bathroom as their employer, cooking, cleaning doing everything but facing being fired for very little reason. 4 1/2* (I really liked this movie)
146 min, Drama directed by Tate Taylor with Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O'Reilly, Allison Janney, Anna Camp, Chris Lowell, Sissy Spacek.
Note: Blockbuster 3 1/2*, imdb 8.1 out of 10, 75% critic 91% audience on Rotten Tomatoes.
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