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Summary: 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.

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  • Physical Description: 1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
    videodisc
    videorecording
  • Publisher: Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett.
DVD release of the 2011 motion picture.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Music, Thomas Newman ; editor, Hughes Winborne ; director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt.
Participant or Performer Note: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek.
Target Audience Note:
PG.
System Details Note:
DVD ; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround (English, French and Spanish) and DVS 2.0 stereo. surround (English).
Language Note:
In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish, with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish.
Closed-captioned.
Descriptive audio in English for the visually impaired.
Subject: Jackson (Miss.) -- Drama
Films for the hearing impaired
African American women household employees -- Drama
Housekeepers -- Mississippi -- Drama
African American women -- Drama
Civil rights movements -- Drama
Genre: Feature films.
Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.
Social problem films.
Film adaptations.
Topic Heading: Adult DVD.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Kitimat Public Library FRE DVD Hel (Text) 32665001932450 DVDs Volume hold Available -
Nelson Public Library DVD F HEL (Text) 35148001009014 DVDs Volume hold Reshelving -

Summary: 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.
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