Resume af filmen 'Niceville' (The Help)

The movie “Niceville” is based on a book called the help.

Set in Jackson, Mississippi, the movie begins in 1962. The writer Skeeter has just graduated and returns home after finding a job writing the local newspaper. When she come home she finds out that her maid Constantine has left. When she asks her mum and dad about what happened, they won’t tell it. A day Skeeter is over at Hillys house to play bridge with Hilly and some other friends. Hilly Holbrook and Skeeter discuss Hilly’s initiative to pass a bill that would require every white household to have a separate bathroom for black housemaids. Disgusted by Hilly’s idea, Skeeter finds Aibileen and asks if she ever wished she could change anything. Unwilling to express her true feelings to a white woman, Aibileen says that everything is fine. A few days later, Minny Jackson, another black maid and Aibileen’s best friend, loses her job working for Hilly’s mum. Hilly has also spread rumors about Minny being a thief so none of the other neighbors will hire her. Minny tells Aibileen that she took revenge on Hilly, but she won’t give her the details, only telling her that it involved a pie. Minny ultimately finds work with the white housewife Celia Foote, a woman none of the white housewives in the community likes. Celia is kind to Minny and does not treat her any differently for being black.