The Help (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) Reviews

A love letter to the black women who raised dual families during the 1960s: their own and the children of the white families they tended, Tate Taylor’s The Help is both joyous and humbling. With the same thematic tone and texture that distinguished Driving Miss Daisy, The Help paints memorable portraits of several black and white characters, and in its depiction of a specific time and place in southern history, watching it is like walking back through time to an era of sometimes noble and sometimes synthetic grace and charm and enlivened by the stories unfolding of a group of people who welded reins of power in families without ever abusing the privilege or receiving even a fraction of what they were worth.

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