It’s been a LONG while since I’ve seen a movie that made me feel good. The Help did just that.I took my mom to see The Help last week, since both of us had heard so many good things about it. Since I had run the trailer for the movie a few months ago, on the Twiniversity website, I was hooked.

The Help was a book that I’ve wanted to read since it was published in 2009. Since it was the same year Twiniversity launched, I never had the time. So when the movie came out, I couldn’t wait to go.

The afternoon we got to the movie I got myself a medium popcorn and soda, (yes, I ate it all, and I don’t share! It’s my one condition on movie dates!), and sat through some AWFUL previews of some movies, that I would rather not discuss, but let’s just say, one is a remake of a great 80’s classic!

As the movie started, I already liked it. The setting in Jackson, MS, was the most picturesque backdrop to introduce Skeeter, a young, single, ‘wanna-be’ writer, who gets her first job writing for a local newspaper’s domestic column.

Reaching out for some household tips from the local ‘Help,’ Skeeter turns to career maids, who live a very different life then her own. The movie takes place during the start of the civil rights movement. You can’t help but to sympathize with these working women. And so the tone is set…The women can take care of, love and raise the children of the employers; but they aren’t able to use the same toilet as them, and are still pushed to the back of the bus. More