[Movie Script]Help, The

                                 THE HELP


Written by
Tate Taylor
Based on the novel by
Kathryn Stockett
Second Draft,

November 9, 2009
WILLIAM FAULKNER wrote of Mammy Callie after her death:
"...she gave to my family a fidelity without stint or

calculation or recompense and gave to my childhood an

immeasurable devotion and love".
          JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI 1963


          INT. AIBILEEN'S HOUSE - KITCHEN - NIGHT



AIBILEEN, black, 53, sits at a table in a small, green

kitchen. She wears a yellow dress with black piping and

grips a tattered spiral notebook.

Although cracked, the window behind her is crystal clear.

Three framed portraits hang on the wall above her: John F.

Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and an UNKNOWN YOUNG

BLACK MALE wearing thick glasses.

Aibileen swallows hard.
                          AIBILEEN


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