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The Help(2011)
Released
2011 · FILM

The Help

A determined young writer teams with outspoken Black maids to expose the cruel racism of 1960s Mississippi households, risking social exile to give their silenced voices a platform.

“Change begins with a whisper.”

Directed by
Tate Taylor, Karen Davis
Written by
Tate Taylor, Kathryn Stockett
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
146 min
Drama
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 579+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Hughes WinborneShot by Stephen GoldblattScored by Thomas NewmanDesigned by Mark RickerSound by Willie D BurtonCostumes by Sharen Davis Nm0205446Stunts by Rocky CapellaVFX by Ray Mcintyre Jr

Box Office

2011 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 8.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$216.6M

Budget$25.0M
Worldwide gross$216.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $169.7M — 78% of worldwide · International: $46.9M (22%)

Opening weekend: $9.9M — 6% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $9.9M — 6% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,511 theaters

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Also known as

  • La Couleur des sentimentsfr

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