2011 Movies : Adaptation

With Emma Stone • Jessica Chastain • Viola Davis • Allison Janney • Octavia Spencer • Bryce Dallas Howard • Tate Taylor • David Oyelowo • Chris Columbus • Cicely Tyson • Michael Barnathan • Kathryn Stockett • Jennifer Blum • Michael Radcliffe • Brunson Green • Nate Berkus • Dean Jones • Mohamed Khalef Al-Mazrouei • Lila Rogers

Story follows a young white woman in the early 1960s in Mississippi who becomes interested in the plight of the African-American domestic servants that every family has working for them. She writes their stories about mistreatment, abuse and heartbreak, all just before the Civil Rights revolution.