And suffered through the film on a flight back from Europe. Maaaaaaaan - was I happy when it was over and I flipped over to Bad Teacher! 
Cameron Diaz's transformation in her movie was far faaaaaaar more compelling than the Rip Off Artist in The Help.
And I'll say it again - Why now?
Great - white folks can only open their eyes when it's a weak black woman in a subjugated position? My mother was disgusted by the premise - but then again she thinks she's Obama's "Mother" - as do two other caucasian women in my mom's age group that have 'black children" by birth.
I think arguing about it with people that can't see it is a waste of time.
The same people believe Saint Ronnie's Welfare Queen Meme - and can't see the connection between being a single black mother domestic worker, trumped up charges against black men, the 'emasculating' nature of the criminal justice system for black men . . . and how it's not Welfare/TANF that is inter-generational . . . but the black subjugated working poor status in America that manifested itself in share cropping, domestic work, and a 'day's pay'.
There's a scene in the flick where one of the characters does something to the 'nice white folk's food' - had she been caught - she would have been lynched.
Number23 - here's what I'm telling people - my fiance owns a movie called The Long Walk Home. He flew home from Italy a week after me and he TOO watched the help on B.A. Now he's owned The Long Walk home for a few years - and I shouldn't tell this secret . . . but he likes lifetime movies!
Everyone who ooohs and aaaahs over the movie - The Help - should be forced to watch The Long Walk Home.
It's the REAL story of a friendly employer with a black maid (Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek star in the movie) - in the shadows of the Civil Rights movement. After the 'feel good' of The Help - it's a reality show.
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