Film Screening: The Help

Film Screening of The Help and Discussion
Friday, January 27, 2012
7:00pm - Emerson Suites, Campus Center 

Feel free to bring a sleeping bag, blanket, or your 60's clothes. Popcorn, snacks, and refreshments will be provided!

The IC MLK Celebration Committee is pleased to screen The Help, a film based on the #1 New York Times bestseller by Kathryn Stockett that has been nominated for 5 Golden Globes and 4 Screen Actors Guild Awards.  The Help is an empowering story about very different, extraordinary women in the 1960s South who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project — one that breaks society’s rules and puts them all at risk.    The screening will be followed by a discussion, facilitated by an Ithaca College Faculty member, about underlying themes and connections in the film related to the civil rights movement.   

"Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Emma Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives -- and a Mississippi town -- upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen (Viola Davis), Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up -- to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter's life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories -- and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly -- and unwillingly -- caught up in the changing times." - Written by Walt Disney Pictures

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Sarah Louise Schupp at sschupp@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3222. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.